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This paints the fiasco over the Kushner security clearance in a new light.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner...

I didn't know that. I'm just completely speculating right now, but I wonder if that has something to do with Jared Kushner's denied security clearance. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner...

Does that apply to the President? (At this point it seems clear that nothing applies to the president; let’s hope to god that someone makes a new amendment for that.)

The president (and other elected positions) are carved out of those kinds of requirements: requiring an elected official to "pass" a background test created by unelected public servants amounts to an unintended check on representative democracy.

To be clear: we absolutely should require that elected officials disclose their finances. But we shouldn't require them to be vetted through a mostly unaccountable process after they've been elected.

This is very informative and clear, thanks :)

Not accurate.

Security clearances can be denied for financial irresponsibility, having “significant debt” isn’t necessarily financial irresponsibility.