“Trump is comfortable with appointees serving in an acting capacity because it avoids the public scrutiny of conflicts of interest that confirmation hearings will expose,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. Bernhardt and Wheeler in particular “have serious conflict of interest concerns that may well constitute a violation of Trump’s own ethics executive order,” Holman added. His nonprofit has filed ethics complaints against both.
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