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government oversight, On May 26, Mulvaney sent a second letter denying that his first letter had questioned OGE's authority and, this time, providing the information requested by Shaub's original data call. Thereafter, on May 30, the White House complied with Shaub's data call by posting its waivers online. On August 1, Senators
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On April 28, 2017, Shaub issued a data call directing the White House, agency ethics officials, Inspectors
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before he took office. He delivered a speech on
January 11, 2017 regarding concerns with the president-elect's refusal to divest his assets and, instead, place them in trust managed by his sons. Shaub was also the author of a series of
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Administration. He described, "the White House that has set a tone from the top that ethics doesn't matter." He was highly critical of naming an
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