Ethics Agency Rejects White House Move To Block Ethics Waiver Disclosures
The Office of Government Ethics "declines your request to suspend its ethics authority," its director tells the White House. The administration said compiling the waivers exceeded OGE's authority.
Updated at 10:08 p.m. ET.
The Office of Government Ethics has rejected a White House attempt to block the agency's compilation of federal ethics rules waivers granted to officials hired into the Trump administration from corporations and lobbying firms.
The White House action, a letter to OGE Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. from Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, was by . The of lobbyists turned appointees who were granted waivers and now oversee regulations they previously had lobbied against.
