Monday, January 9, 2017

Robert Reich on Mitch McConnell, Ethics, Cabinet Confirmations

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Trump’s will be the most ethically challenged administration in American history.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today says he won't slow down confirmation hearings -- despite “great concerns” from the independent watchdog Office of Government Ethics that several Trump’s cabinet nominees with a complex financial interests still haven’t filed financial disclosures, and they have “potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues.”
9 cabinet confirmation hearings are scheduled this week. Among those without ethics reports are billionaire Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education, and John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
And, of course, there's Trump himself, who refuses to disclose his assets, refuses to disclose his taxes, and refuses to put his holdings in a blind trust.
What do you think?


McConnell: We won't delay hearings

"All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustrations,” McConnell says of Democrats complaining about incomplete ethics reviews.
Politico