The House Transportation committee on Tuesday wrote to the Biden administration to request financial records for the D.C. Trump International Hotel.
Why it matters: The General Services Administration(GSA) had refused the panel’s first request in 2019 for details of the leased government-owned building’s revenue, profits, losses and expenses, and it continued to do so throughout former President Trump’s presidency.
- “Those records, if made public, would reveal the inner workings of a hotel that became an icon of Trump’s era — a place where the sitting president’s company could be paid by foreign governments, Republican allies and companies with business before the Trump administration,” per the Washington Post, which first reported the news. Continue reading.