Article snippet: The White House has launched a formal inquiry into Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's living situation last year at a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a top lobbyist. As ABC News first reported last week, Pruitt rented a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condo in 2017 that was partially owned by Vicki Hart, the wife of lobbyist J. Steven Hart, who was registered to lobby for several environmental and energy concerns. A spokesman for Hart said he has not directly lobbied the EPA on behalf of clients since Trump took office. The unusual rental agreement allowed Pruitt to pay $50 a night for use of the condo, only paying for when he stayed over. He wound up spending more than $6,000, according to figures reported by Bloomberg. "I don't know how you survive this one, and if he has to go, it's because he never should have been there in the first place," Chris Christie, an ABC News contributor and former governor of New Jersey, told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos Sunday on "This Week." White House officials were quiet about the arrangement over the weekend, telling ABC News they were gathering facts. President Donald Trump's friend Christopher Ruddy, a contributor to ABC News and the founder and CEO of news and opinion site Newsmax, said they didn't think the president was ready to add Pruitt to the list of departing aides and cabinet officials. "The president looks very holistically at their whole job performanc... Link to the full article to read more