President Trump met with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Tuesday to discuss the Paris climate change agreement, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
“One of the topics they discussed was, of course, the president’s upcoming decision of the Paris climate accords,” Spicer said during a press briefing at the White House. The president is expected to make a decision this week on whether to withdraw from the agreement.
“Ultimately, he wants a fair deal for the American people, and he will have an announcement on that shortly,” Spicer said.
“This is a subject that the president is spending a great deal of time on, and the one that he spoke to the G7 members about during their meetings,” he said.
An Axios report over the weekend said Trump already told Pruitt he would leave the Paris Agreement, citing unnamed sources. Pruitt supports leaving the climate change agreement, while others in Trump’s Cabinet, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, think withdrawing from the deal would not be wise.
