You don’t need us to tell you that the Trump administration has been a disaster for government ethics.

Reforms like these should be a no-brainer:

1. End misuse of government offices for private gain by expanding recusal rules and requiring all high level executive branch officials to divest their financial interests.

(we’re looking at you, Wilbur Ross, Louis DeJoy, Ryan Zinke and Marc Short)

2. Give the Office of Government Ethics more power to actually enforce ethics laws, or create a different centralized office that can do so.

3. Put all ethics records online and make them public and searchable.

4. Rebuild inspector general offices so that they can investigate executive branch abuses, and can’t be fired unless there’s actually a legitimate reason to fire them.

5. Add more details to financial disclosure reports. Remember Trump’s mysterious debts? That can’t be allowed to happen again.

6. Require cabinet level officials to release their tax returns (obviously, the president and VP, too).

7. CREATE REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR VIOLATING THE HATCH ACT. We’re talking $50,000 fines.

If you’ve been frustrated by feeble ethics laws during the Trump era, there’s a good chance we’ve got a solution. Read them here: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/reforming-executive-branch-ethics/