out employees that raised concerns about his spending pruitt told lawmakers last week that there was no truth to the reports and that the agency will work to protect whistleblowers he said he was ultimately told to resign or he would be fired but he still refused to resign he said he thinks the president doesnt have the full story when it comes to pruitt chmielewski said that when a manager told him pruitt wanted him fired he said that he also wanted to place one of his aides hupp into the deputy chief of staff job it was also found that pruitts chief of staff had approved significant raises for some of pruitts top aids on the administrators behalf 236 epa chief on capitol hill i have nothing to hide he said his security team decided that he should fly first class not coach a whistleblower from the environmental protection agency says that administrator scott pruitt was boldfaced lying when he told members of congress that no epa employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions we would talk about it all the time hupp was one of the aides that was granted a controversial raise that pruitt said he reversed and that he didnt know the specific amount the epas internal watchdog is looking into multiple questions about pruitts decisions since taking over at the epa including the allegations of retaliation against employees his spending on travel and security and his living arrangement in march abc news first reported that pruitt had been living in a capitol hill condo coowned by the wife of a prominent lobbyist with business interests before the epa pruitt said last week that he asked his staff for a way to answer secure calls but did not directly ask for the 43000 secure phone booth the report launched queries into other pruitt and epa expenditures including questions about pruitts security spending which far outpaced his predecessors on things like first class flights a 24hour security detail and a 43000 soundproof phone booth for his office because he was he was the biggest advocate about doing the right thing i sure didnt want to and still dont want to