Der Senat bestätigt den Ethikbeauftragten von Biden, die Trump-Überprüfung zu überwachen

This is all I could copy/paste:) But, it’s fantastic news!

* Biden pick will run the ethics office during Trump’s term
* The agency is deeply involved in the nomination process

“The Senate Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the main ethics watchdog in the executive branch, one set to be involved in nominee vetting for the entirety of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

Senators voted 50-46, along party lines Thursday to confirm David Huitema’s nomination to run the Office of Government Ethics, created after the Watergate scandal, for a five-year term. The OGE—which has lacked a director for more than a year—oversees more than 140 agencies, enforcing ethics rules to prevent financial conflicts of interest among federal employees.

The agency is also heavily involved in the nomination process…”

EDITED TO ADD:

This from the following letter urging his confirmation. I have to believe Biden’s choice is much better than someone that Trump might have chosen…..

[https://www.citizen.org/article/letter-to-senate-urging-confirmation-of-oge-director/](https://www.citizen.org/article/letter-to-senate-urging-confirmation-of-oge-director/)

>One of the most important roles of the Office of Government Ethics is to oversee and advise the presidential transition process. The selection and nomination of most new administration officials takes place during the transition, in which OGE’s vetting of pending nominees for conflicts of interest is most critical. The Office needs to be fully staffed and operational during the course of the transition period.

So at the moment, anything Senators vote for along party lines is D-50 R-46 and passes??

This combines with the fact that Trump didn’t get his first-choice pick for Speaker of the House.

Maybe there are still some adults in the room in Washington D.C.

Headline in two months: Trump fires official overseeing ethics vetting.

Oh I’m sure the Trump administration and congressional Republicans will for sure listen to what this guy says….

Another toothless bureaucrat

Won’t it be moot if they bypass the normal vetting process if they do all recess appointments?

Edited for autocorrect being a dick and me missing it

“However, Walter Shaub, who led the OGE during the Obama administration and resigned in 2017 after months of conflict with the Trump White House, warned in a Thursday interview with Government Executive that “it might be a hollow victory for government ethics if Trump fires Huitema after the inauguration.”

“Even if Trump doesn’t fire Huitema, OGE won’t be able to prevent Trump’s top appointees from retaining conflicting financial interests if the Senate grants Trump’s request that lawmakers conspire in skirting or short-shrifting the constitutional confirmation process,” Shaub added.

Finally some good fucking news

Not gonna save us

This was a party line vote. Come January no party and then YOU get a recess apointment you get a recess apointment everyone gets a recess appointment!

he’ll spend a productive 4 years sending strongly worded letters about possible violations to the circular master file at Trump’s DoJ. centralizing the entire federal government under the president was a huge mistake that we got to by pure accident and some malicious designs. the GOP have their theory of a unitary executive where nothing in the federal government is off limits to the executive’s pen, even when strict limits are laid out by congress. money from any program can and will be reprogrammed against congress’s will to fit whatever the executive wants.

congress to them is basically a cash register, doleing out money for the president to spend how he sees fit.

Y’all understand Trump will just disband this office. Y’all get that, right?

This dude will have zero power to stop anything let’s not get our hopes up like Reddit has a history of doing.