Bipartisan Letter Rebukes Kellyanne Conway for 'Explicit Endorsement' of Ivanka Trump Products

Congressional Oversight Committee calls for aide to be disciplined

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By encouraging Fox News viewers to “buy Ivanka’s stuff,” White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway’s statements “clearly violate the ethical principals for federal employees,” according to a bipartisan letter from two key members of Congress.

Filed late this afternoon, the letter from the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform encourages disciplinary action “such as reprimand, suspension, demotion or dismissal” be recommended against Conway by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and ranking minority member Elijah E.

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