Dealing with Trump Administration Appointees? Watch Out for These Major New Restrictions in the “Drain the Swamp” Executive Order

Dealing with Trump Administration Appointees? Watch Out for These Major New Restrictions in the “Drain the Swamp” Executive Order

January 31, 2017, Covington Alert

President Donald Trump this weekend signed his promised “drain the swamp” Executive Order, which imposes ethics restrictions on incoming and outgoing Trump Administration appointees. Incoming appointees would, of course, do well to carefully review the provisions of the Executive Order. But companies that deal with the Administration—whether by lobbying the executive branch, by seeing a former executive take a Presidentially appointed position, or by hiring a former Administration appointee—must also be mindful of these, in some cases, extremely restrictive provisions, lest they unwittingly get caught up in an ethics scandal.