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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1.  Ethics Pledge.  Every appointee in every executive agency appointed on or after January 20, 2021, shall sign, and upon signing shall be contractually committed to, the following pledge upon becoming an appointee:  “I recognize that this pledge is part of a broader ethics in government plan designed to restore and maintain pub...

by Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm Stacks on stacks on stacks. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images We are only three days into this new era and the recently inaugurated president's hand is on fucking fire. President Biden has already signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trump's most destructive policies. In his first week in office, Biden's orders primarily focused on bolstering the federal government's coronavirus response, reversing Trump's ass-backward environmental rollba...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In the first hours of his new Administration, President Joseph R. Biden issued a new Executive Order (the Order) on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel. The Order includes an Ethics Pledge that every executive appointee must sign and abide by. The Pledge includes: A lobbyist gift ban Revolving door bans applicable to all appointees entering and leaving government, with additional restrictions on lobbyists and foreign agents Restrictions on “shadow lobbying” by former senior and very senior appointees A first-of-its-...

January 20, 2021 at 2:32 PM Shares23 What finer coda to the Trump administration’s orgy of corruption than an executive order rescinding ethics restrictions on lobbying in the final hours? Aaron Sorkin could not have scripted it better. On January 28, 2017, eight days into his term, President Trump signed Executive Order 13770 governing Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Employees. In fulfillment of Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” employees would sign a pledge not to lobby their agencies for five years after leaving government service. They’d permanently give up t...

Trump has revoked the order that he signed in 2017, which banned administration officials from becoming lobbyists for five years.