President Donald Trump is removing the head of the office that oversees ethics in the executive branch.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics “has been notified that the President is removing David Huitema as the director of OGE,” the office posted Monday in a statement on its website.
Huitema, a former State Department ethics official, was nominated by then-President Joe Biden. The Senate confirmed him in November and Huitema in December began a five-year term as the director of the ethics office.
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His ouster “is not surprising,” said Walter Shaub, who served as director of the Office of Government Ethics during the Obama and first Trump administrations.
