In a Thursday letter, OGE director Walter Shaub contradicted what he called the White House’s “extraordinary assertion,” made in a recent letter, that “many regulations promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics (‘OGE’) do not apply to employees of the Executive Office of the President.”

Shaub was having no part of that: “The assertion is incorrect, and the letter cites no legal basis for it.”

U.S. Ethics Official To White House: No, These Rules Definitely Apply To You : The Two-Way : NPR

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