american bridge is looking for any possible conflicts of interest with incoming trump appointments, in addition to copies of the transition team<u+2019>s expenditures and any reimbursements. | ap photo by nolan d. mccaskill 11/14/16 03:15 pm est a democratic super pac is filing public records requests with government agencies for documents involving president-elect donald trump<u+2019>s presidential campaign and transition team, according to copies of the requests provided exclusively to politico on monday. american bridge 21st century is asking the general services administration, office of government ethics and office of personnel management for a trove of documents involving dozens of people, including trump<u+2019>s key aides, advisers, surrogates and even his adult children. story continued below <u+201c>donald trump enters the white house with too many conflicts of interest to count, like tapping his children to both run his company and help lead the transition,<u+201d> jessica mackler, president of the progressive research group, said in a statement to politico. <u+201c>with so many opportunities for companies and foreign governments to gain influence over trump, american bridge is ready to hold trump and his administration accountable using every tool we have <u+2014> starting with making sure trump isn't using the presidency for his own gain.<u+201d> the requests seek financial records; call and text message logs from phones paid for with federal funds; email archival it records; financial disclosure forms and other records related to the team<u+2019>s vetting efforts by government staff of potential appointees for conflicts of interest and other issues; background check documentation; and correspondence with various agencies. <u+201c>i am requesting incoming-and-outgoing correspondence between president trump<u+2019>s transition team and the trump campaign from may 1, 2016, this search should be processed on a rolling basis and correspondence should be made available as it is processed,<u+201d> the documents read. american bridge is looking for any possible conflicts of interest with incoming trump appointments, in addition to copies of the transition team<u+2019>s expenditures and any reimbursements, and the transition team<u+2019>s memorandum of understanding. the liberal super pac submitted a similar records request with the sec and faa a month after trump launched his presidential bid for information regarding the then-republican candidate and employees of the trump organization. earlier monday, house oversight committee ranking member elijah cummings (d-md.) filed a letter to chairman jason chaffetz (r-utah) asking for a swift review of trump<u+2019>s <u+201c>financial arrangements<u+201d> to be completed before the president-elect is sworn in as president in january. by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
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