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Members of the Trump administration explored the prospect of exporting nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, despite warnings over national security concerns, according to a new report by Democrats in the House of Representatives.
The 24-page report by the House Oversight Committee relies on whistle-blowers and focuses on the earliest weeks in Donald Trump’s presidency.
Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the committee, said the rush in the White House to get the deal done could have violated the Atomic Energy Act and also was being done “without review by Congress, as required by law.” Brookfield Asset Management - which has a crucial property partnership with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a key envoy to Saudi Arabia - is part of the IP3 consortium organizing the planned nuclear sales to Saudi Arabia, the report said.
Cummings said efforts to conclude the deal might still be ongoing.
His report comes just as Kushner is set to again head to the Middle East, including Riyadh, later this month.
Trump held a meeting last week with nuclear power executives, an event that was not on his public schedule.
Whistle-blowers “warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes.
They have also warned about a working environment inside the White House marked by chaos, dysfunction, and backbiting,” the report said.
Saudi Arabia is already under increasing pressure in Congress, where anger has grown over the humanitarian catastrophe its military is wreaking in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi’s consulate in Istanbul.
Washington
Members of the Trump administration explored the prospect of exporting nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, despite warnings over national security concerns, according to a new report by Democrats in the House of Representatives.
The 24-page report by the House Oversight Committee relies on whistle-blowers and focuses on the earliest weeks in Donald Trump’s presidency.
Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the committee, said the rush in the White House to get the deal done could have violated the Atomic Energy Act and also was being done “without review by Congress, as required by law.” Brookfield Asset Management - which has a crucial property partnership with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a key envoy to Saudi Arabia - is part of the IP3 consortium organizing the planned nuclear sales to Saudi Arabia, the report said.
Cummings said efforts to conclude the deal might still be ongoing.
His report comes just as Kushner is set to again head to the Middle East, including Riyadh, later this month.
Trump held a meeting last week with nuclear power executives, an event that was not on his public schedule.
Whistle-blowers “warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes.
They have also warned about a working environment inside the White House marked by chaos, dysfunction, and backbiting,” the report said.
Saudi Arabia is already under increasing pressure in Congress, where anger has grown over the humanitarian catastrophe its military is wreaking in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi’s consulate in Istanbul.
