The administration’s commerce chief remained under fresh scrutiny in the wake of the ethics watchdog’s refusal to certify his financial disclosure, a rare rebuke that highlighted sloppy reporting and the ever-present Trump-era suspicion that conflicts of interest were being waved through instead of handled. On March 14, the Ross story was less a new explosion than a reminder that the administration’s standards problem was still very much alive. In Trumpworld, even the boring paperwork kept turning into a scandal.
The administration’s commerce chief remained under fresh scrutiny in the wake of the ethics watchdog’s refusal to certify his financial disclosure, a rare rebuke that highlighted sloppy reporting and the ever-present Trump-era suspicion that conflicts of interest were being waved through instead of handled. On March 14, the Ross story was less a new explosion than a reminder that the administration’s standards probl…
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