WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) led six Senators in pressing White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to provide information on the top post at the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) being vacant for months, making it so OGE is unable to perform a range of critical functions to enforce our ethics laws.
"OGE's mission helps ensure that the more than 2 million government employes have the tools necessary to avoid problems related to ethics or conflicts of interest and - critically - maintain the trust of the American public. OGE simply cannot fulfill its role, as intended by Congress, without a director," said the Senators.
In February 2025, Trump removed OGE Di...