Updates | The Week of May 29, 2017
In the New York Times, Lily Batchelder looks at how the cap on pass-through business income stands to benefit very few, including President Trump.
Documents acquired through a public records request provide an early indication of how the Department of Justice under President Trump will handle conflicts of interest, Zoe Tillman writes on Buzzfeed.
Jared Kushner’s company used a federal loan program intended to subsidize low-income housing to build a luxury residential building, reports Shawn Boburg in The Washington Post.
After pressure, the White House publicly disclosed its ethics waivers online (Sunlight Foundation, POGO).
- White House counsel Donald McGahn and other former Jones Day lawyers received blanket waivers allowing them to bypass President Trump’s ethics executive order (ABA Journal).