WASHINGTON—A watchdog complaint alleges that a Biden administration official violated federal ethics law by actively maintaining a “Kamala Wins” X account supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign earlier this year.
Ethan Wolf was named in a Hatch Act Complaint filed with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) on Dec. 11. It alleges that the communications specialist at the International Trade Commission (ITC) repeatedly posted “blatant political content during the government workday” on the X account.
The Hatch Act, which became law in 1939, prohibits federal workers from conducting partisan political activities on official time, while on government property, or in any other public setting that could be construed as an endorsement of a particular candidate….