In May, Oversight Chair James Comer led a bipartisan push to significantly ratchet up the level of transparency required of presidents and their family members.
“We want Americans to see for themselves, now and in the future, whether or not our leaders in the White House are influence peddling,” Comer said in a video at the time, adding that “this isn’t a partisan problem.”
That was Comer’s pitch after spending more than a year investigating President Joe Biden and his son Hunter over their business dealings and months before Donald Trump was elected president. Now that Trump is the president-elect, Comer refuses to say if he will continue pushing for the Presidential Ethics Reform Act.