Presenting a bill to ban foreign payments to the president in the United States

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, US Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill yesterday that would bar the president and other top government officials from accepting payments from foreign governments while serving. has it.     

According to the report, the bill, which likely has no chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Congress, aims to tighten enforcement of the Constitution’s “rights clause” and clearly target President Donald Trump. The next possibility is the United States.

Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee released a report in January that found business connections with the former president amounted to at least 7/8 Millions of dollars in foreign payments from 20 countries during his 4-year tenure in the White House were revealed.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, supported by Jimmy Ruskin introduced the bill and stated that for centuries, the president and other high-ranking government officials have respected foreign and domestic salary and remuneration clauses. Unfortunately, President Trump’s brazen acceptance of gifts and foreign interests has revealed the need for clear laws on anti-corruption provisions in the Constitution.

According to the new bill, high-ranking government officials, including members of Congress, are prohibited from accepting payments and gifts from foreign governments, directly or indirectly, while in office. They are banned from their businesses and receiving these gifts is criminalized and offenders are punished. This bill applies to high-ranking officials two years after they leave office, except in cases where Congress makes an exception.

while Donald Trump, whose business includes real estate and very expensive companies, continued his business during his presidency and appointed his son to manage his companies instead. /span>

The Trump campaign and the office of James Comer, chairman of the review committee, have not yet responded to the presentation of this bill.

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