Sen. Warren: DOD answers show no anti-corruption protocols for Trump children
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Democrats have been hotly critical of the Trump family's business dealings while President Donald Trump serves in the White House.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the Department of Defense has no plan to stop President Donald Trump's family from profiting on lucrative defense contracts in a Tuesday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shared exclusively with CNBC.
The letter comes after the Pentagon sent Warren a response to a January inquiry the Massachusetts Democrat sent to the department seeking answers about the agency's contracting with the Trump children. CNBC has also reviewed the previously unreported Defense Department response, which Warren said failed to answer her questions about potential Trump family involvement in the agency's contracting decisions.
"It failed to provide answers to the vast majority of questions that we asked regarding DoD's decision making process for the contracts and loan guarantees referenced in our January 22, 2026 letter," Warren wrote of the Defense Department's response in the new letter, which was cosigned by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "It also suggests that DoD appears to have no effective processes in place to ensure that DoD contracts are being fairly awarded to companies based on our national security and defense requirements—rather than the financial interests of the President's family."
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