The Government Accountability Office will investigate aspects of the Trump transition in response to a request from the House Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The GAO told the pair of Democrats in a letter from last week but released Tuesday that the GAO investigation would, “examine the 2017 presidential transition on the basis of your letter to the comptroller general.”
When Cummings, D-Md., and Warren, D-Mass., requested the investigation just two weeks after the election, they wrote, “Mr. Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest — and his behavior during the campaign and after his election — raise questions about the use of taxpayer funds during the transition, and about the decisions made during the transition that will affect federal government policies under the Trump administration.”
Some of the objectives outlined by the GAO for the investigation include examining what ethical and legal restrictions are placed on the process of a presidential transition, and what government funds and services are used for managing disclosures and conflict of interest issues. The Government Accountability Office will investigate aspects of the Trump transition in response to a request from the House Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“We plan to complete our work and send a draft product to the agencies for comment in June 2017,” the GAO said.
