Potential family conflicts arise for Joe Biden and aides as his administration drafts new ethics rules
President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter celebrate onstage in Wilmington, Del., after Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election on Nov. 7.
President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter celebrate onstage in Wilmington, Del., after Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election on
The last time Joe Biden worked in the White House, his son-in-law Howard Krein mentioned that executives from his health-care start-up firm would be visiting Washington. The vice president promptly arranged a meeting between the group, which included Krein’s brother, Steven, and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
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“He knew about StartUp Health and was a big fan of it,” Howard Krein, the husband of Biden’s daughter Ashley, told the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2015. “He asked for Steve’s number and said, ‘I have to get them up here to talk with Barack.’ ”
Now Biden is preparing to step back into the Oval Office with radically different expectations about how he will handle the relationship between his official power and his family’s private interests. After President Trump’s years of mixing family with governing and an election that highlighted the business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter, the president-elect has promised to keep his family from being hired into his administration, to prohibit family entanglements with “any foreign operation” and to go even further.
“My son, my family will not be involved in any business, any enterprise that is in conflict with or appears to be in conflict,” the president-elect told CNN this month.
That pledge has now been handed over to lawyers for the presidential transition who are drafting new rules for the Biden White House that are likely to be more restrictive than the rules that governed the Obama administration. Biden has made clear that he wants a clean break from Trump, who employed his family and spent public funds at family businesses.