Teacher Confronts Scott Pruitt At DC Eatery (Video)

WASHINGTON, DC — Yet another Trump Administration official has been confronted by an angry protester while dining out in Washington, D.C. This time, it was Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who faces multiple investigations into his spending of tax dollars on security and has been criticized for his proposed rollbacks for clean air and water policies and fighting climate change.

The Huffington Post reports that Kristin Mink, a teacher and a mother of a 2-year-old, was eating lunch at a D.C. teashop when she noticed Pruitt.

“Instantly, I knew I had to say something,” she told HuffPo. “He’s someone I think about all the time. He’s directly impacting the future of the world.”

So she took her child over to Pruitt, introduced herself, and promptly asked him to resign over Pruitt's opposition to efforts to curb climate change.

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“We deserve to have somebody at the EPA who actually does protect our environment, somebody who believes in climate change and takes it seriously for the benefit of all of us, including our children," she tells Pruitt in the video. "I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out.”

Pruitt looks at the woman but never says anything, eventually leaving the restaurant with his security detail, according to the report.

Lawmakers have grilled Pruitt on his agency's budget in hearings the past two months. Pruitt's spending on security, and some of the EPA's security contracts with a former security chief who resigned, are among the topics of more than a dozen federal probes involving the EPA under Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general.

He is at least the fourth member of the Trump Administration to have been confronted while dining out in recent weeks. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen was confronted by activists shouting "Shame!" at a Mexican restaurant in D.C. last month over reports of immigrant children being separated from their parents on the Mexican border.

Stephen Miller, the White House advisor widely seen as the architect of the child separation policy, was also reportedly confronted at a Mexican restaurant in D.C.

And the president's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, which sparked a nationwide debate after Sanders named the restaurant on Twitter. The restaurant -- and others that share the same name -- have reportedly been vandalized and picketed since then.

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