Washington – A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed legislation on Monday to bar the U.S. government from renting rooms at President Donald Trump’s hotels for official business.
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“Donald Trump should not be allowed to line his or his family’s pockets with taxpayer dollars,” Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said in a statement.
He said the amendments he was introducing to a spending bill were necessary because of the Republican president’s “unprecedented failure to divest from his business, and the ongoing entanglement between the Trump Organization and the White House.”
Republicans control the House and the Senate.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last month, the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit alleging that government payments to Trump’s businesses violated the U.S. Constitution.
Seriously? Is there a democrat congressman that has anything else to do besides go after Trump? Every day, it’s something else, Absolutely appalling!
I don’t recall anyone introducing a bill when Kerry was in the Senate (or kissing up our enemies with his big horse-head as Secretary of State) to ban the use of Heinz ketchup or other Heinz products by government officials during government reimbursed meals, even though Kerry was a substantial owner of Heinz (through his wife). Such stupidity!