Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, may be the Trump appointee who most aggressively wants to destroy the agency he oversees. Under his direction, the EPA is sidelining scientists, handicapping investigators, banning references to climate change, and botching the investigations of toxic contamination. On top of all that, he seems hell-bent on bleeding the agency dry.

In a new report, the Associated Press has confirmed that Pruitt has blown millions of tax dollars on his personal security team of 20 full-time people. In just his first three months in office, Pruitt spent more than $800,000 on this security detail. An official told the AP that the intense protection is necessary because Pruitt has attracted so many death threats, but there are no records of any investigations into threats against him and the agency provided none when the AP requested them. But the AP did manage to look at Pruitt's schedules, where they found that Pruitt even brought his security team on a family trip:

Those schedules show multiple EPA security agents accompanied Pruitt on a family vacation to California that featured a day at Disneyland and a New Year’s Day football game where his home state Oklahoma Sooners were playing in the Rose Bowl. Multiple agents also accompanied Pruitt to a baseball game at the University of Kentucky and at his house outside Tulsa, during which no official EPA events were scheduled.

Unlike his predecessor, Pruitt insists on flying first class and bringing his security detail with him even when he's not on EPA business. The security is eating up so many resources that it's preventing EPA investigators from doing their jobs. Pruitt claims that the first-class travel is necessary to protect him from the common folk who, for some impossible to figure out reason, are disgruntled with how he's running things. (Specifically, someone yelled a swear word at him in an airport one time.) Yet, oddly, the AP found that when Pruitt is paying for his own tickets, he's suddenly willing to fly coach.

These costs came to light in the middle of a wave of leaks and accusations against Pruitt, including that he's been renting a D.C. condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist for the basically nonexistent price of $50 a night and that White House chief of staff John Kelly has been pressuring Trump to fire him.

As one of the few barely-a-millionaire members of Trump's cabinet, Pruitt is practically a diversity hire. But he's proven to be just as capable a grifter as any of his wealthy and unqualified peers.