fil-A what? A new Pru flap

EPA chief Scott Pruitt reportedly had a top aide reach out to the head of fast-food company Chickfil-A to ask about “a potential business opportunity” — a franchise for his wife.

The request was made to Dan Cathy, the chairman and president of Chickfil-A, just three months after Pruitt was sworn in, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

“The subject of that phone call was an expression of interest in his wife becoming a Chick-fil-A franchisee,” company rep Carrie Kurlander told the paper.

“Administrator Pruitt’s wife started, but did not complete, the Chick-fil-A franchisee application.”

But the revelation that Pruitt used his Cabinet position and official staff is just the latest scandal surrounding the EPA chief, who is the subject of roughly a dozen federal investigations because of alleged ethical lapses.

“He is about as swampy as you get here in Washington, DC, and if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own Cabinet,” GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa said Tuesday.

Pruitt’s efforts on his wife, Marilyn’s, behalf were revealed in e-mails recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Sierra Club, the paper reported, and did not end with Chick-fil-A.

Pruitt — who has been widely criticized for his lavish spending of taxpayer funds on first-class travel, 24-hour security and a $43,000 private phone booth for his office — wanted his wife to start bringing home the bacon, aides told the newspaper.

Asking the aide, Sydney Hupp, to set up the meeting with Chick-fil-A allegedly broke a law that says that federal officials can’t require underlings to do personal errands. Sydney Hupp is no longer with the EPA.

It was revealed a day earlier that her sister, Millan Hupp, also ran personal tasks for her boss — including trying to snare him a used “Trump Home Luxury Plush Euro Pillow Top” mattress from President Trump’s DC hotel.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox declined to comment.