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Originally Posted by crockett
No wonder Republicans were trying to gut the ethics committee.. They are trying to rush though Trump's cabinet picks with out the required ethics checks. Some haven't disclosed their financials which is "required"..
Ethics office sounds alarm on GOP rushing Trump Cabinet confirmations - CBS News
“It has left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings,” Shaub wrote in the letter obtained by CBS News. It was of further “great concern” to Shaub that several of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet selections had yet to complete the office’s full ethics review. For some nominees, the office had not received “even initial draft financial disclosure reports for some of the nominees scheduled for hearings,” according to the ethics director.
“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,” he said in the letter,
In before Trumpbots make excuses and tell us Hillary is the devil.. Thanks Obama.. Liberals are bad.. |
Their plan originally was to push through 9 confirmations on Wednesday without public discourse, while on the other side of the hill pushing through hundreds of legislative bills/amendments, and have Trump have his press conference on the same day to overload the media. Rachel Maddow did a piece on it yesterday.
Kinda like they voted behind closed doors to gut the ethics committee with no public discourse. You know, how dictatorships work
