“Trump is comfortable with appointees serving

“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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