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WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and perform other personal chores for him, according to an email and testimony from the aide released Monday.

The account from Pruitt scheduling director Millan Hupp is in a letter House Democrats sent Monday to House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.). Hupp appeared before a panel of committee staffers last month.

Democrats released a partial transcript of her interview, including Hupp’s account that Pruitt (photo) had her do personal errands, including house hunting and booking a trip for him to the Rose Bowl. MELANIA TRUMP made her first public appearance in nearly a month on Monday, and while the event was closed to the press, a reporter for a pro-Trump outlet was in attendance.

“Good to see her doing well,” Jena Greene, a reporter for the right-wing Daily Caller, tweeted along with a video of the First Lady and President Trump making their way to a podium at a White House event honoring

Staffers also asked Hupp about an email that showed her reaching out to managers of the Trump hotel at Pruitt’s request. Hupp told the House staffers that Pruitt wanted a used mattress from the Trump hotel. Hupp told them she did not know what Pruitt planned to do with any mattress, but added, “It was around the same time that he was moving.”

Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Gerald Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrats on the Oversight Committee and a subcommittee on government operations, called the errands a violation of federal law on gifts from subordinates.

The EPA’s press office did not answer questions Monday about whether Pruitt got the mattress and, if so, how much he paid for it and whether hotel staff delivered it to his home. families of those killed in military service.

Greene said Trump, after reporting that his wife was feeling better after her “little problem, made a joke about “speculation” he and the First Lady are about to get a divorce, saying that’s not happening. “Isn’t that right, honey?” the President quipped to laughs from the Gold Star families in attendance, according to Greene.