Democrats sue GSA over access to Trump hotel records
By Jonathan O'Connell
November 2 at 11:27 AM
A group of House Democrats are suing the head of the General Services Administration for access to documents related to President Trump’s D.C. hotel, the project Trump’s company leases from the agency.
On Thursday, 17 Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, frustrated at the GSA’s repeated unwillingness to provide documents related to the hotel, filed suit in federal court against the agency’s acting administrator, Timothy O. Horne, whom Trump chose after entering the White House.
At issue are documents that the Democrats say the administration is required by law to provide. Specifically, they seek monthly financial reports the hotel is required to file with the GSA, records of payments from the hotel’s foreign clients and details on how the agency decided to allow Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, to retain the deal after he became president ...
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