Tag: Ethics

Breaking with precedent, Trump did not release his tax returns during the presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump critics plan to hold a protest march on tax day

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2017 3:57 pm

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced its legal team for dealing with compliance and ethics matters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump announces White House ethics team

Alex Pappas · January 25, 2017 10:53 pm

Praise for Trump for divesting considered premature at best and sarcastic and biased at worst. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers scold ethics chief for tweeting

Nicole Duran · January 24, 2017 12:51 am

President Trump's sons and a Trump Organization executive are now in charge of the family business. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump resigned from hundreds of positions just before taking office

Kyle Feldscher · January 23, 2017 9:02 pm

"If confirmed, I will only take a salary of $1, to be official, but I don't intend to take a salary either," said Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s education secretary won’t take a salary from taxpayers

Jason Russell · January 18, 2017 1:48 am

In response to the Trump plan, Walter Shaub has taken it upon himself to loudly and publicly protest. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

The unethical Office of Government Ethics

Charlie Spies · January 17, 2017 3:38 pm

Poll: Public curiosity about Trump’s tax returns is growing

Joseph Lawler · January 16, 2017 10:36 pm

National Security

Monica Crowley won’t take Trump administration job amid plagiarism scandal

Kyle Feldscher · January 16, 2017 5:28 pm

President-elect Trump's announcement Wednesday outlining how he is transferring control of his company to his sons caused ethics experts to raise concerns. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Creating a safe space for the Trump Organization

Salena Zito · January 15, 2017 5:03 am

"You acted with unprecedented urgency to hold 'emergency' hearings and issue multiple unilateral subpoenas to investigate Secretary Clinton before the election," Dems wrote in a letter to Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. "We ask that ... you show the same sense of urgency now." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

White House slams Chaffetz for ’embarrassing’ tenure

Gabby Morrongiello · January 13, 2017 7:06 pm

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, accused the OGE chief of acting "prematurely at best, without doing investigations or thorough looks." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jason Chaffetz: Ethics office not acting ethically

Daniel Chaitin · January 13, 2017 3:37 am

Monica Crowley, who will take a role as the senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council under President-elect Trump, has been under the microscope this week for plagiarizing other people's work to include in her book and her dissertation. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

Trump aide Crowley plagiarized extensively for dissertation: Report

Kyle Feldscher · January 12, 2017 3:27 pm