Watchdog groups press Trump to reimpose ethics executive order

One of President Donald Trump‘s first actions in office was to rescind former President Joe Biden‘s ethics executive order, which included a pledge for federal government political appointees, but he did not replace it with his own as he did during his first term.

That pledge called on Biden’s executive branch political appointees to “commit to decision-making on the merits and exclusively in the public interest, without regard to private gain or personal benefit.”