Updates | The Week of March 20, 2017
Helen Klein Murillo // 3/26/17 //
The Government Services Agency (GSA) has stated that the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. is not in violation of its federal lease (NPR).
- Democratic legislators criticized the GSA’s decision (here)
- Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington also condemned the decision.
Jared Kushner’s White House role as Senior Advisor to the President is complicating a Kushner family skyscraper deal, according to Peter Grant (WSJ).
Boycott campaigns against Trump businesses can keep public attention on the President’s conflicts, according to Michael Marcua of The Global Anticorruption Blog.
Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue has many conflicts of interest, which are helpfully detailed here by Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington.
President Trump’s close advisor Carl Icahn has reportedly bet millions of dollars that the Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a reform to the market for renewable-fuel credits that he’s advocated to the President (The Intercept, Bloomberg).