The bill has little chance of being passed in the US Senate, which would need 60 votes…..
The legislation is in response to ex-President Donald Trump’s viewed abuse of power….
Plain and simple….
Before Trump we kinda thought President’s wouldn’t just throw out all the basic ‘norms’ other President’s stuck to mostly…
Not Trump…..
The legislation would require presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns, which Mr. Trump refused to do.
The act would also strengthen the Constitution’s previously obscure ban on presidents taking emoluments, or payments, by extending anticorruption prohibition to commercial transactions. Mr. Trump’s refusal to divest from his hotels raised the question of whether lobbyists and other governments that began paying for numerous rooms at Trump resorts — and sometimes not using them — were trying to purchase his favor.
The bill would also require campaigns to report any offers of foreign assistance to the F.B.I. — a proposal that resonates with episodes unearthed in the Russia investigation, such as when Donald Trump Jr. and other senior campaign officials met at Trump Tower with Russians they were told had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The package now moves to the Senate, where the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation means that Republicans can block it. Representative James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who managed his party’s side of the House debate, said there was “no apparent path for the bill in the Senate.”
But supporters of the bill envision breaking it up and attaching different components to other legislation in the Senate in a bid to regain bipartisan backing for elements that Republicans have supported in the past….
Aaron Parnas
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Every House Republican, except Kinzinger, just voted against prohibiting Presidents from receiving foreign or domestic emoluments while in office.
That is actually mind blowing.