"Inside Scott Pruitt's "Miserable" Bunker"

"President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets. A source who spoke to Trump told me the president raised the issue in conversation and said, "That's not good." Trump has been souring on Pruitt as the negative press about him piles up.

Why this matters: Pruitt — who is under siege from federal investigators, the White House, Capitol Hill, and the media — survives because the one guy who matters in the White House won't fire him. Trump's draining supply of goodwill towards Pruitt is the EPA administrator's lifeline. Most everyone else in the building wants him gone.

Pruitt's spokesman Jahan Wilcox has denied that his team pushed negative stories about Zinke: 'This did not happen and it's categorically false.'"

Jonathan Swan reports for Axios May 6, 2018.

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"A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House" (Atlantic)