White House blasts Chaffetz for threatening to subpoena ethics watchdog
By Jordan Fabian - 01/13/17 01:23 PM EST
The White House on Friday tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) for threatening to subpoena the top federal ethics watchdog.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest accused Chaffetz of “seeking to intimidate a senior executive branch official who is responsible for enforcing federal ethics rules.”
Earnest defended the official in question, Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub, saying he is “doing the job that Jason Chaffetz himself is refusing to do."
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