US senator Elizabeth Warren says transition agreement between Trump team and White House fails to answer key questions about FBI vetting and securityGood morning, US politics blog readers. US senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, blasted an agreement announced between Donald Trump’s transition team and the Joe Biden White House last night as failing “to answer key questions about national security threats and FBI vetting of nominees”, thereby increasing “concerns about corruption”.We’ll have more details and also cover all the other politics news today, as it happens. Here’s what’s afoot:The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the incoming Trump and outgoing Biden administrations outlining some terms of the transfer of power departs from the norm in a few key ways, which is raising eyebrows on Washington.The Trump team said the transition will be privately funded and will not utilize “government buildings or technology […] and will operate as a self-sufficient organization.”Susie Wiles, Trump’s incoming chief of staff said the transition team “has an existing ethics plan”, which she said would be uploaded to the General Services Administration website.Warren called Trump’s use of private funds “nothing more than a ploy for well-connected Trump insiders to line their pockets while pretending to save taxpayers money.” She expressed “concerns of corruption”.There is a fresh flurry of Trump appointments. Among those announced last night were John Phelan, an investor and Trump campaign donor, as his pick for secretary of the Navy, and Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health researcher who opposed Covid-19 lockdowns, to head the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-11-27 14:17:09
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