Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Charles SchumerMcConnell to Dems: Work with us to repeal and replace Obamacare Week ahead: Dems look for way forward on FCC nomination GOP stresses 'stable transition' in weekend ObamaCare message MORE (D) on Saturday accused Senate Republicans of trying to “jam through” President-elect Donald Trump Donald TrumpConway to CNN host: Why can't you give Trump the benefit of the doubt? The Senate GOP is racing to ready many of Trump’s choices for confirmation as soon as Inauguration Day, with five Cabinet-level confirmation hearings scheduled for Wednesday and several others scheduled over the next two weeks. “As OGE’s director, the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me,” Walter Shaub, Jr. wrote in the letter. “This schedule has created undue pressure on OGE’s staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews.” 
 
 Shaub acknowledged that several of Trump's appointees had not yet completed the screening process, though he did not mention any names. Appointed public officials who must be confirmed by the Senate are required to file employment and financial disclosures under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, a process that Shaub said takes “weeks, not months.” 
 
 A Democratic Senate aide said that four appointees have not yet filed disclosures with OGE: Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson, Education secretary pick Betsy DeVos, Homeland Security nominee Michael Kelly and Commerce secretary pick Wilbur Ross. ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 "Senate Republicans should heed the advice of this independent office and stop trying to jam through unvetted nominees," he added.
– "We seem to have lost contact with the Trump-Pence transition since the election," Walter Shaub wrote in an email to Trump aides in November, CNBC reports. The email from the director of the nonpartisan Office of Government Ethics was made public Saturday amid growing concerns about what Shaub says are "potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues" with Trump's cabinet choices, according to Politico. The Trump team failed to clear any of his cabinet nominees with the OGE prior to announcing them, which Shaub says has forced staff to "rush through these important reviews" meant to help cabinet appointees avoid potentially criminal conflicts of interest when they start work. A whole bunch of Trump's nominees are scheduled for confirmation hearings in the next two weeks, and Shaub warns many won't have undergone ethics reviews by that time. He says he's unaware of this ever happening before and warns it could lead to both "embarrassment" for Trump and appointees accidentally breaking federal rules. "If we don't get involved early to prevent problems, we won't be able to help them after the fact," he says. The DNC wants the hearings delayed, the Hill reports. Sen. Charles Schumer calls the confirmation schedule "unprecedented" and Trump's nominees "unvetted." The American people deserve to know that these cabinet nominees...[are] working on behalf of the American people and not their own bottom line," Schumer says.