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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ethics-office-warns-that-trump-gop-rushing-cabinet-confirmations/2017/01/07/caa74460-d4f9-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.932cc587ce0aEthics office warns that Trump, GOP rushing Cabinet confirmations
By Ed O'Keefe January 7 at 12:05 PM
A federal watchdog agency responsible for reviewing the backgrounds of White House Cabinet nominees has warned that his office has been overwhelmed by the task of vetting Donald J. Trumps selections.
In a letter to Democratic senators dated Saturday, the head of the Office of Government Ethics also warned that Republicans are trying to take the unprecedented step of holding hearings for Cabinet picks before theyve completed requisite paperwork to ensure there are no ethical, financial or criminal concerns.
Walter M. Shaub Jr., the ethics director, said it is of great concern to me that several of Trumps nominees have not completed an ethics review before hearings are scheduled to begin next week.
Plans for at least seven Trump nominees to sit for hearings on Capitol Hill in the coming days has created undue pressure on OGEs staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews, Shaub wrote. More significantly, it has left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings.
Shaub added: I am not aware of any occasion in the four decades since OGE was established when the Senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process.
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Ethics office warns that Trump, GOP rushing Cabinet confirmations (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2017
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Republicans have now showne, beyond any doubt, that they're dictators in heart and soul.
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
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Loge23
(3,922 posts)1. The coup don't do ethics
Walks like, talks like, smells like - we're being taken over by a foe of America.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)2. Republicans have now showne, beyond any doubt, that they're dictators in heart and soul.
This rushing of confirmations for tRump's corrupt band of appointees is just more evidence that Republicans don't give a fuck about the U.S. Constitution, the country, nor its people. It's all about POWER and the drive to turn our democracy into a autocratic dictatorship run solely by like-minded autocrats.
dhill926
(16,343 posts)3. ethics office....
how quaint. and how long before the fascists start renaming things...
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)4. ?? The ethics office isn't 'quaint' yet.
They're trying to get dt to follow the rules. The bum needs to be thrown out if he doesn't.