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Politics
Meaghan Ellis

House probes missing Trump admin gifts

Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump Getty/Chip Somodevilla

A House oversight committee has announced its intent to launch an investigation into former President Donald Trump amid developments about his administration's failure to fulfill a legal requirement to provide proper accounting records for gifts received from foreign officials.

On Monday, June 6, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., penned a letter to the U.S. National Archives requesting documentation regarding "'mismanaged gifts' received from foreign government officials while Trump was in office," per CNN. According to Maloney, the committee became concerned after reviewing the information provided by the U.S. State Department.

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