Walter Shaub, the Obama administration appointee running the Office of Government Ethics, on Thursday found himself being blasted by a Republican committee chairman and then defended by his Democratic counterparts as he continues to question the adequacy of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to remove potential conflicts of interests from his vast business holdings.
In a Jan. 12 letter, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked Shaub to make an appointment for a closed-door interview this month. The lawmaker criticized the Twitter offerings the OGE made this fall, saying it is “not clear whether the tweets constitute official OGE guidance or something less formal,” but that the “tweets publicized private discussions with the president-elect’s counsel.”
