It looks like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may be violating the Hatch Act.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked the Office of Special Counsel to look into whether Pompeo’s repeated trips to Kansas violate the act.
The Hatch Act bars executive branch employees from using government resources for partisan purposes, such as campaigning while on the clock. But it appears Pompeo may be doing just that.
View the complete October 31 article by Lisa Needham on the National Memo website here.