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Every community in America should benefit from technology & innovation. In this year's midterms, Dems have #ABetterDeal than the @GOP

You wouldn’t send your kids to play baseball without a bat. Don’t send them into the 21st century economy without the tools to succeed. #ABetterDeal

#Trumpcare was a sign of the @HouseGOP's immoral obsession with cutting off health care coverage for American families.

Our veterans fought for us -- but if Republicans got their way on #Trumpcare, NY veterans would have lost their Medicaid coverage.

NYers living with pre-existing conditions would have faced serious new costs if #Trumpcare became law. Thankful that did not come to pass.

Today marks one year since the @HouseGOP rammed through their shameful #Trumpcare legislation.

The president has set the tone for this wasteful spending by spending tens of millions in taxpayer money on his weekly excursions to his golf clubs and resorts.

Unfortunately, it’s not just Pruitt - this is a pattern of corruption and abuse of taxpayer dollars that comes from the top and has spread across the Trump administration.

There are currently at least ten federal investigations related to Pruitt’s security practices, travel expenses, and other issues.

Amidst news of all these offenses, the federal government’s top ethics official even took the rare step of sending a letter to the EPA questioning Pruitt’s actions and asking the agency to take action to address any violations.

A government watchdog agency concluded that the EPA violated federal law in spending more than $43,000 to install a private phone booth in Pruitt’s office.

Scott Pruitt wasted more than one hundred thousand taxpayer dollars on first class airfare during his first year in office.

Pruitt reassigned EPA staff who questioned his lavish spending and outlandish requests, and then lied to Congress about it.

Pruitt went around the White House and took advantage of an obscure provision to give raises to two of his aides, and falsely claimed that he knew nothing about it.

The EPA signed off on a project for an energy company, which was represented by the firm that employs the lobbyist who has been linked to the Washington condo that Pruitt rented at far below market value.

The lobbyist husband of Pruitt’s landlord asked him for help getting three people recommended by his firm’s client appointed to an EPA advisory board.

One of Pruitt’s lobbyist friends on the verge of securing a $40,000 monthly contract with the Moroccan government helped arrange his controversial trip to Morocco, which cost more than $100,000.

Two key EPA aides facing an array of ethics investigations abruptly resigned Meanwhile, Pruitt faces at least 10 federal investigations.