First Fox: Senator Sheldon White House, Doctor, is accused of violating ethical rules after he supported laws that had financially benefited his wife’s environmental organization.
The Democrat Senator and the Climate Hawk have joined forces with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, for a major law that will fund grants to environmental nonprofits that will pay her through consulting companies.
Ethics Watchdog, a foundation of accountability and citizen trusts, has set up the White House for Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford, R. Okra and Vice Chairman Chris Koons (d-del.). I’m asking you to investigate. He violated the Senate ethical rules on conflicts of interest. ” The group works primarily to draw attention to potential Democrats’ ethical violations.
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Senator Sheldon White House has been accused of potential conflicts of interest by the ethics watchdog. (Getty Images)
White House wife Sandra is employed as president of consulting firm Ocean Wonk LLC, and has been employed since 2017, according to the LinkedIn page. Prior to that, she was a direct employee of the Ocean Conservancy and was a senior policy advisor since 2008.
Ocean Conservancy has received more than $14.2 million federal grants since 2008 for each USASPENDING.GOV. In 2024 alone, two large grants were $5.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the September marine debris cleanup, and the other $1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). was given. Clean up debris.
The former was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act (BIL) defended by the Biden administration and voted by the White House Senators. The latter was funded through the EPA’s annual spending bill, which was also voted for.
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“Those two grants alone look like a conflict of interest, but that’s even worse in the context of a long history of White House senators lobbying by an organization tied to their wives.”
“Ocean Conservancy is a longtime federal lobby on issues relating to ocean, climate change and environmental cleanup, directly defended by longtime Senate environmental and public members (and current ranking members) White House Senators. He has spent millions on the costs of his activities, co-founder of the Labor Commission and the Senate’s so-called “Marine Caucus.”
Since 2010, Ocean Conservancy has paid the White House a total of $2,686,800 per tax document, either directly or through her company.
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The White House did not provide comment. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
“Respected marine ecologist and Ocean Policy consultant Dr. Sandra Whitehouse has not received compensation from these federal grants assigned to the Ocean Conservancy,” said Ocean Conservancy. Banshee’s Vice President of Foreign Affairs Jeff Watters told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“For 40 years, Ocean Conservancy has been a global leader in marine debris cleaning up through our signature initiative, International Coastal Cleanup. The cleanup of marine debris is aided by marine reserves received from NOAA. Gold came from laws passed with a wide range of competitive, bipartisan support. The independent selection process that Ocean Conservancy designated as one of hundreds of NGOs to receive funds was the result of the ocean. Based on decades of expertise in dealing with debris of the ocean.
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One of the grants was funded through the bipartisan infrastructure law. (Photographer: Daniel Rozada/Bloomberg by Getty Images)
“With the support of these bipartisan federal funds, Ocean Conservancy plans to remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage from U.S. beaches and waterways, and the tourism industry,” he said.
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Watters further pointed out that prominent Republicans support both the BIL and EPA budget bills received in the Senate.
The White House, Lankford and Coons did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication.
Julia Johnson is a political writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business and is a major reporter in the US Senate. She was previously a political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
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