Posted on 04/28/2017 8:14:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
WASHINGTON ― Some of the Trump administration’s nominees have pushed back against the government’s ethics requirements with “a ferocity we’ve not previously seen,” Walter Shaub, the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, told a top White House lawyer in an email this week.
Shaub was responding to Reince Priebus, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, who, when asked on Fox News Wednesday why the White House has been slow to fill key positions, claimed that many nominees were “sitting and waiting for OGE.”
“That’s not the case,” Shaub wrote in an email sent to Stefan Passantino, the White House deputy counsel, on the same day, and subsequently obtained by HuffPost.
In addition to alleging pushback from some nominees, Shaub shared an OGE document illustrating that in its first 100 days, the Trump administration has lagged far behind the Obama administration in terms of sending nominee reports to OGE. The document also showed that OGE is clearing the reports for the Trump administration at a faster rate than it did during the Obama administration, even though these reports are more complex.
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Obama stooge.
“.. even though these reports are more complex.”
That’s because the Obama nominees never had honest jobs .... just one liners .... Government employment, or government assistance, or Government grant sine 8 years old.
The Puffington Host huffing and a puffing, and still nothing comes down.
They are more complicated because Trump’s nominees actually DID something for a living.
Is it just me or does Huff Poop seem like it’s getting chitier and chitier?
Pretty soon it will just be condensed sewage slurry deposited down at the local trash dump. It already smells that way...
Good for them.
OGE Obama holdovers sniffing into private matters where they do not belong, seeking evidence for prosecution?
What used to be an ethics check has turned into a leaker’s witch hunt for connections with Russia?
Can’t blame the push back.
Get rid of the Obama ideologues at OGE. Send ‘em packing.
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