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Under federal law, U.S. departments and agencies are required to
inform the State Department of gifts over $415 its employees
received from foreign governments. The law aims to ensure U.S.
officials are kept free from foreign influence.
Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney, chair of the
Oversight Committee, said Trump's administration had poorly
managed and tracked foreign gifts it received and failed to
report them to the State Department.
"As a result, the foreign sources and monetary value of gifts
President Trump received remain unknown," Maloney wrote in a
letter to the acting head of the U.S. National Archives, the
federal agency that maintains presidential records.
"These revelations raise concerns about the potential for undue
influence over former President Trump by foreign governments,
which may have put the national security and foreign policy
interests of the United States at risk," Maloney added.
Trump representatives did not immediately respond to a request
for comment.
The House Oversight Committee and the Justice Department are
separately investigating Trump's removal of classified documents
from the White House. Trump denies any wrongdoing.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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