Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long said Sunday that he has no plans to resign amid a Department of Homeland Security probe into his travel using government resources.<\/b>
\nLong told NBC’s \u00ab\u00a0Meet the Press \u00a0\u00bb on Sunday that Nielsen has not asked for his resignation and that he’s cooperating with the DHS inspector general’s investigation.
\u00ab\u00a0Secretary Nielsen has never asked me to resign,\u00a0\u00bb Long said. \u00ab\u00a0We have a very functional and professional relationship. We talk every day. We are both solely focused on Florence.\u00a0\u00bb
Asked if he plans to resign, Long replied, \u00ab\u00a0No. No, no, I’m here to serve my country every day. That’s all I do.\u00a0\u00bb
A senior administration official confirmed to CNN last week that there is an ongoing investigation includes, but may not be limited to, whether Long misused government vehicles and personnel for his six-hour drives between his home in North Carolina and FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC. Politico first reported the existence of the investigation.
Also on Sunday, Long told CBS’s \u00ab\u00a0Face the Nation\u00a0\u00bb that he has run the agency \u00ab\u00a0the same way it ran for anybody before me.\u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0I have never made — I would never intentionally violate any rules that I was aware of,\u00a0\u00bb he added.
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned over investigations into their misuse of taxpayer funds for travel and other controversies.<\/p>\n

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