
Citizens for Ethics
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CREW uses high-impact legal actions to target government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests.
Washington, D.C.
Joined February 2009
Nope, it's not normal for a president to have a growing crypto and foreign business empire that he refuses to divest from before taking office. Thanks for asking!.
citizensforethics.org
With the expansion of Trump's foreign developments and his foray into cryptocurrency, among other ventures, he seems poised to rack up more conflicts than ever.
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The Trump admin is demanding confidential patient information from doctors and hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for transgender children. It's yet another invasive overreach of federal power with serious implications for healthcare access.
nytimes.com
A June subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received gender-related care, as well as “every writing or record” made by...
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President Trump has now fired 50 political appointees across the government who make sure our government runs, including 10 he appointed himself. This is an unprecedented attempt to weaken institutional guardrails. We break it down in our tracker:
citizensforethics.org
Trump and his allies have fired political appointees across the government who make sure our government runs.
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The federal takeover of DC could be costing upwards of $1 million every single day, according to an analysis from the The Intercept. Trump's power grab is expensive, and taxpayers, once again, are footing the bill.
theintercept.com
An analysis conducted for The Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions.
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And the only reason we know this is because we successfully sued to bring the apportionments database back online that shows what OMB Director Russell Vought was trying to do behind closed doors.
citizensforethics.org
OMB took offline information that shows how OMB directs agencies to spend taxpayer money—information that OMB is required by law to post.
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The Trump administration is ignoring a directive from Congress and refusing to fully fund an HIV prevention program that is widely credited with saving millions of lives.
nytimes.com
Lawmakers allocated $6 billion this fiscal year for PEPFAR, the H.I.V. prevention and treatment program, but the administration has indicated it will release less than half of that.
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John Bolton served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Then he became an outspoken critic of Trump. Now the FBI has searched his house.
apnews.com
The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.
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Since returning to office, President Trump has bought at least $103 million worth of bonds, including those sold by companies impacted by his policy agenda. Most presidents since 1978 have divested their conflicted assets. except Trump.
bloomberg.com
President Donald Trump has bought hundreds of bonds since he returned to office, including those sold by US companies affected by the sweeping changes to federal policies he’s championed.
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DC statehood now.DC statehood now.DC statehood now.
citizensforethics.org
Without statehood, D.C. residents are they are vulnerable to efforts by Trump and Congress to meddle in local affairs.
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NEW: Courts have fulfilled their constitutional responsibility by refusing to bless Trump's blatantly unconstitutional executive orders. So Trump has declared war on the courts, rather than simply filing appeals. Read @GreggNunziata and @NoahBookbinder:
citizensforethics.org
Trump is engaged in a sustained, and deeply dangerous, effort to threaten and delegitimize our federal judges.
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The public should know the monetary cost of Trump's DC takeover, which undercuts DC's independence and raises concerns about Trump's move towards authoritarianism. We're investigating.
citizensforethics.org
CREW filed expedited FOIA requests in an attempt to establish the cost to taxpayers of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC and determine which units were...
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DC statehood now. If Trump’s authoritarian actions against DC are allowed to stand, the damage could extend far beyond the city limits.
citizensforethics.org
If Trump’s authoritarian actions against DC are allowed to stand, the damage could extend far beyond the city limits.
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The American people deserve to know exactly how much they are spending to have federal agents patrolling DC so that they can decide for themselves whether the benefits outweigh the costs. We're investigating.
citizensforethics.org
CREW filed expedited FOIA requests in an attempt to establish the cost to taxpayers of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC and determine which units were...
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We got records that show how DOGE has operated as a seemingly separate and unaccountable body within government agencies, for example by setting up a separate SBA X account. That lack of oversight is unacceptable. We're fighting back.
wired.com
In February, DOGE affiliates at the SBA set up an X account and solicited whistleblower complaints. “It’s like having a crazy uncle who decides to be the cops,” a government auditor tells WIRED.
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It's time to ban congressional stock trading, once and for all.
houstonchronicle.com
Politicians and high-ranking federal officials of both parties are routinely flagged by ethics groups for buying and selling stock at opportune moments.
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Trump’s Office of Management and Budget tried to hide how it was allocating taxpayer money. But now thanks to our win in court last week, it brought back a funding database over the weekend—and with it, a key measure of public accountability.
govexec.com
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that the apportionment information must be “promptly made public.”
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We requested records from 10 federal agencies to establish the logistics and full cost of Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC. Taxpayers have a right to know how much this takeover will cost.
citizensforethics.org
CREW filed expedited FOIA requests in an attempt to establish the cost to taxpayers of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC and determine which units were...
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90% of US immigration detention is done by private corporations that have multi–million dollar contracts with ICE. With a clear reliance on these companies, the Trump admin allocated $45 billion to carry out its mass deportation of immigrants.
citizensforethics.org
President Trump’s budget bill paves the way for a huge windfall to private immigration detention companies that donated big to support Trump
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