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CNN
a day ago
- Business
- CNN
Trump privately discussing plans to host G20 at his Doral resort, White House official says
President Donald Trump is quietly discussing plans to host the 2026 G20 summit, a forum of the world's largest economies, at his Doral golf club in the Miami area, a White House official told CNN. The idea has been discussed for weeks, the official said. CNN previously spotted an aide carrying a 'G20 Miami 2026' sign into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in June. Bloomberg first reported on the proposed plans. Trump had previously planned to host a G7 summit at his Miami-area resort in 2020 during his first term, but ultimately reversed course after facing widespread outrage over the decision to host the major gathering of world leaders at his own property. The current discussions regarding the 2026 G20 summit raise questions of potential conflicts of interest. Critics have in the past accused Trump of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which restricts the president from accepting gifts and money from foreign governments. This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN
a day ago
- Business
- CNN
Trump privately discussing plans to host G20 at his Doral resort, White House official says
President Donald Trump is quietly discussing plans to host the 2026 G20 summit, a forum of the world's largest economies, at his Doral golf club in the Miami area, a White House official told CNN. The idea has been discussed for weeks, the official said. CNN previously spotted an aide carrying a 'G20 Miami 2026' sign into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in June. Bloomberg first reported on the proposed plans. Trump had previously planned to host a G7 summit at his Miami-area resort in 2020 during his first term, but ultimately reversed course after facing widespread outrage over the decision to host the major gathering of world leaders at his own property. The current discussions regarding the 2026 G20 summit raise questions of potential conflicts of interest. Critics have in the past accused Trump of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which restricts the president from accepting gifts and money from foreign governments. This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN
a day ago
- Business
- CNN
Trump privately discussing plans to host G20 at his Doral resort, White House official says
President Donald Trump is quietly discussing plans to host the 2026 G20 summit, a forum of the world's largest economies, at his Doral golf club in the Miami area, a White House official told CNN. The idea has been discussed for weeks, the official said. CNN previously spotted an aide carrying a 'G20 Miami 2026' sign into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in June. Bloomberg first reported on the proposed plans. Trump had previously planned to host a G7 summit at his Miami-area resort in 2020 during his first term, but ultimately reversed course after facing widespread outrage over the decision to host the major gathering of world leaders at his own property. The current discussions regarding the 2026 G20 summit raise questions of potential conflicts of interest. Critics have in the past accused Trump of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which restricts the president from accepting gifts and money from foreign governments. This is a developing story and will be updated.
New York Times
6 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
Ethics Panel Rebukes Congressman for Wife's Stock Trade in Firm He Helped
The House Ethics Committee on Friday rebuked a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and urged him and his wife to sell their holdings in a steel company in his district after a four-year investigation into a stock trade found that he had violated the House's official code of conduct. In its report, the committee cited Representative Mike Kelly, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, for a 'lack of candor' in its inquiry into 2020 trades by his wife, Victoria, involving a local steel company that was seeking government intervention to prevent layoffs or the closure of its plant in Butler, Pa., in Mr. Kelly's district. Mr. Kelly was actively lobbying the Trump administration for trade protections for the plant, newly purchased by the company Cleveland-Cliffs, and learned that the Commerce Department was going to intervene in favor of the firm. The next day — five days before the Commerce action was made public — his wife purchased 5,000 shares of Cleveland-Cliffs stock. She later sold the stock at a nearly $65,000 profit, a roughly 285-percent gain. Members of Congress are prohibited from using confidential information for financial benefit and must disclose transactions by them or close family members valued at more than $1,000, but efforts to tighten those rules or bar lawmakers from trading stocks altogether have so far been unsuccessful. That has created an environment rife with potential conflicts of interest, in which many lawmakers who are active in the stock market have unique insight into or influence over companies whose shares they are buying and selling. The report said because of a lack of cooperation from Mrs. Kelly, it was ' ultimately unable to confirm whether Mrs. Kelly received nonpublic information from her husband or what her intent was in purchasing the Cleveland-Cliffs stock.' It did say, though, that the transaction risked creating an appearance of impropriety and self-dealing. 'Representative Kelly's conduct with respect to Cleveland-Cliffs and his wife's stock purchase raised significant concerns for the committee, even if it did not rise to the level of insider trading or clearly violate conflict of interest rules,' the report said. It also said that during his committee interview, 'some of Representative Kelly's answers to key questions were inconsistent both during his testimony and with his prior written responses to committee requests for information.' The report also said the committee was alarmed by the fact that Mrs. Kelly had made additional purchases of the company's stock in 2024 when the congressman was again working on an issue of importance to the company. 'Mrs. Kelly's subsequent purchase of Cleveland-Cliffs stock despite the ongoing investigation, and Representative Kelly's failure to timely disclose that purchase and answer questions relating to it, are yet more examples of his failure to recognize the gravity of the allegations in this case and indicate a lack of respect for the committee's role and processes,' the report said. It said he 'has not demonstrated sufficient appreciation for the harm to the institution caused by the appearance of impropriety.' In a statement, Mr. Kelly, who was first elected in 2010, said he and his family 'look forward to getting this distraction behind us.' 'Throughout this process, I have fought for the 1,400 workers at the plant, I've spoken with these workers, and they appreciate the hard work we have done to fight for those jobs and for Butler,' Mr. Kelly said in the statement.
Fox News
24-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
House to vote on censuring Dem rep charged in ICE facility incident
A House Republican put forward a resolution calling for a vote to censure the New Jersey Democrat who was federally indicted for allegedly obstructing Homeland Security agents at an immigration facility in May. The measure from Clay Higgins of Louisiana states that Rep. LaMonica McIver's "continued service on the Committee on Homeland Security, which is charged with oversight of Federal immigration enforcement and other national security matters, would represent a significant conflict of interest" and that she should be removed from that committee as well. "Clay Higgins is a bigot who wants to be back in the news," McIver told Axios in a statement provided by a spokesperson. "This resolution aims to kick me off the committee that presides over the Department of Homeland Security and shame me for doing the oversight work that is my job," she reportedly added. "Good luck, Clay." The resolution mentions how McIver was hit with a "three-count indictment by a Federal grand jury for assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with Federal officers" during the May 9 incident at the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, N.J. It states that "clause 1 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives provides, ''A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House'" and that "such actions of a Member of the House of Representatives do not reflect creditably on the House." During the incident, McIver and two other members of Congress were conducting a congressional oversight visit that coincided with an immigration protest, according to a Justice Department press release. After Newark Mayor Ras Baraka entered the facility's secured area, federal agents warned him to leave. However, when officers tried to arrest Baraka, McIver allegedly blocked them, putting her arms around the mayor, and "slammed her forearm" into one officer while grabbing another. After pleading not guilty during a court appearance last month, McIver said "At the end of the day this is all about political intimidation. "The Trump administration and his colleagues or cronies, or whatever you want to call them, have weaponized the federal government. They weaponized the Department of Justice and anybody who stands up to them, anyone who criticizes them, anyone who fights back against them finds themselves in these hairs that we are in today," she added. McIver is now headed for trial on Nov. 10. Higgins told Axios that he waited until just before the House of Representatives' 5-week recess to see if Democrats would remove McIver from her committee assignment. House Republicans' rules require indicted members to give up all their committee assignments, while Democrats only require those individuals to surrender committee leadership positions, according to Axios. McIver "should not be participating on the committee that has oversight and voting authority over the branch of federal government that she's been indicted for committing crimes against," Higgins told the outlet.
