Brooke Simpson-Scott Pruitt's $43,000 Phone Booth Broke the Law, Congressional Auditors Say

Scott Pruitt’s $43,000 Phone Booth Broke the Law, Congressional Auditors Say

            The EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, broke the law when they installed a $43,000 soundproof phone booth for Scott Pruitt, the agency’s administrator.  The phone booth was said to be needed so that the agency could make a receive phone calls about classified and top secret information.  But it isn’t the phone booth that is the problem, it’s the fact that the agency may have violated the Antideficiency Act, which makes sure that only budgeted money is spent, and that to spend more than $5,000, they need to notify a congressional committee.   There will be an investigations into Pruitt to make sure he is not being wasteful with tax payer money.

            The article was written by Lisa Friedman for the New York Times on April 16, 2018.  The article was written for anyone who likes to keep up with politics and all of the inside stuff going on in DC.  The article is important because it shows that the government is imperfect, and sometimes the people in government break the rules, even though no one is above them.  The article can be related to the spoils system of Andrew Jackson because there was lots of fraud and waste because the people put in office shouldn’t have been (I don’t know enough about this situation to be able to say if that is happening here).  The government wasn’t doing what it needed to work for the citizens.