The Times listed a handful of White House staff members who could be the subject of ethics violations, including a top energy adviser, Michael Catanzaro, who until late 2016 worked as a lobbyist for major energy and oil industries.
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, is in talks to sell his stake in a technology company focusing on the real estate sector, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
"I think the action he took in Syria shows that when appropriate, this president will take decisive action".
"There's no transparency, and I have no idea how many waivers have been issued", he said, according to The New York Times.
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He said the decision was based on the "grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually". A split from the Obama administration, the decision came after months of speculation about what Trump's administration would do with the records. That fact hasn't stopped past presidents from releasing their tax returns.
Mr. Trump's appointees are also far wealthier and have more complex financial holdings and private-sector ties than officials hired at the start of the Obama administration, according to an Office of Government Ethics analysis that the White House has made public.
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As of Friday morning, the movie is playing in more than 4,310 theaters, the widest release in history for a non-summer title. In February, Vin Diesel announced the release dates for the ninth and tenth installments in the series.
When it comes to full disclosure of White House visitors, big and small, Sean Spicer underscored Monday that the faraway past is now prologue. "The only excuse for this policy is that the Trump administration has something to hide", said David Donnelly, president and chief executive of advocacy group, Every Voice. The president is also relying on a federal court ruling that found that the logs count as "presidential records" and therefore not eligible for FOIA requests. Long-standing norms that were respected and followed by leaders from both parties are being brazenly ignored by President Trump.
On Friday the Trump Administration announced that it will not disclose White House visitor logs.
However, visitor logs for White House agencies, such as the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Trade Representative, may be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
But senior aides say Trump has been surprised by repeated questions about if and when she would relocate from Trump Tower to the White House.
A policy that creates more questions than answers is a bad policy. One of Trump's landmark campaign promises was to "drain the swamp, " a task that seems hardly possible possible considering his administration's lack of transparency.
But in several cases, officials in the Trump administration now hold the jobs they targeted as lobbyists or lawyers in the past two years. In the first three months of 2017, one of the three committees raising money for the effort, Donald J. Trump for President Inc., has already raised $7.1 million. That line seemed to poke fun at reports of Kellyanne Conway's decreasing visibility in the Trump administration after a series of on-air blunders during interviews with cable news shows.
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