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Cory Booker@CoryBooker · Feb 12, 2025

We’re barely three weeks in, but Trump is laying the groundwork to allow staggering levels of corruption to occur in…

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Trump has taken five major actions in his first three weeks to reduce government ethics oversight and accountability: firing the head of the Office of Government Ethics, halting Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, eliminating gift restrictions for political appointees, removing independent Inspectors General, and hiding financial disclosures of top officials.

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    We’re barely three weeks in, but Trump is laying the groundwork to allow staggering levels of corruption to occur in the US Government. Here are five actions he's already taken to open the flood gates of corruption – just the facts🧵

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    1️⃣ He fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics – the person in charge of preventing conflicts of interest and financial entanglements among federal officials. This position typically serves 5 year terms to help shield them from presidential politics.

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    2️⃣ He halted enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the law that bars American companies – like the Trump Organization – from paying cash bribes to foreign officials.

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    3️⃣ He got rid of Executive Order 13989, which prohibited political appointees in the government from accepting gifts from lobbyists.

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    4️⃣ He fired nearly every U.S. Inspector General, the independent watchdogs who exist to root out fraud and corruption in the system. Their collective success has in the past recovered billions of dollars in fraud; stopped billions of dollars in wasteful or ineffective spending and helped Congress hold far more effective oversight hearings. Without these watchdogs bad actors can more easily do bad things.

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    5️⃣ He is hiding the financial disclosure documents of the most influential people running the executive branch from you.

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    Donald Trump and his associates have no interest in draining the swamp. They are filling it.  They're conspiring to make it vastly easier to cash in on the government while you pay the price.