“This is ridiculous,” Warren tweeted, “[Trump’s nominees] can’t drag their feet on ethics paperwork while their Senate friends try to run out the clock.”
OGE Director Walter Shaub voiced his concerns about the premature confirmation hearings in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Warren on Saturday after the two lawmakers asked for a progress report on the ongoing ethics reviews.
Schumer also criticized the timing of the planned hearings while accusing GOP lawmakers of trying to “jam through” the nominees.
“The Office of Government Ethics letter makes crystal-clear that the transition team’s collusion with Senate Republicans to jam through these Cabinet nominees before they’ve been thoroughly vetted is unprecedented,” Schumer said in a statement Saturday.
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