{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=CDA878B6-00FC-49BB-8FAB-0BC7C6F6BFCB", "Office of Government Ethics Responds to Carper Inquiry on President-elect Trumps Conflicts of Interest", "2016-12-13", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Thomas Carper", "C000174", "www.carper.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, received a response to his letter sent to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter Shaub requesting more information regarding how his office plans to address the potential for conflicts of interest in the upcoming Administration of President-elect Donald Trump.\r\nIn his November letter, Senator Carper asked the Office of Government Ethics what guidance they are providing to the President-elect about addressing potential conflicts of interest. In their response, the Office of Government Ethics made clear that, \u201c\u2026[I]t has been the consistent policy of the executive branch that a President should conduct himself \u2018as if\u2019 he were bound by this financial conflict of interest law [18 U.S.C. \u00a7 208]. Given the unique circumstances of the Presidency, OGE's view is that a President should comply with this law by divesting conflicting assets, establishing a qualified blind trust, or both.\u201d\r\nOGE also concluded in its response that, \u201cTransferring operational control of a company to one's children would not constitute the establishment of a qualified blind trust, nor would it eliminate conflicts of interest under 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 208 if applicable.\u201d\r\n\u201cClearly, transferring control of the Trump organization to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, as the President-elect announced his intention to do yesterday, does not solve the numerous conflicts facing the President-elect and his incoming administration,\u201d Senator Carper said today following OGE\u2019s response. \u201cPresident-elect Trump has a sworn duty to ensure the American people that, in every decision he make as President of the United States, he has no other interests than those of our country, and I urge him to heed OGE\u2019s advice in order to do so.\u201d\r\nThe text of Director Shaub\u2019s response can be found in PDF form here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=CDA878B6-00FC-49BB-8FAB-0BC7C6F6BFCB"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.61153101362288, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}