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Dem wants to keep Trump from buying DC golf course after federally funded renovations

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A House Democrat is asking congressional appropriators for guardrails that would prevent President Donald Trump from exploiting a loophole in federal law to buy the East Potomac Golf Course that he's been pushing to renovate with taxpayer funds.

Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee wrote to the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Appropriations committees saying Trump would get little pushback if he tried to carry out such a plan.

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