Any taxpayer money spent on bureaucratic memorabilia is money wasted. Public servants shouldn’t need swag to commemorate doing their jobs. Still criticism of Scott Pruitt over a proposed redesign of so-called challenge coins for the EPA is just too much.

A 1,200-word New York Times expose details Pruitt’s ideas for redesigning the coins, keepsakes given out in appreciation of a job well done. He wanted a Buffalo and a Bible Verse added, innocuous odes to Oklahoma and his faith. Bottom line, the Times reports, Pruitt wanted to “make it bigger, and delete the E.P.A. logo.”

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