Washington — The head of the Office of Government Ethics is publicly slamming President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to continue profiting from his international company while he is in the White House.

Walter Shaub took the extraordinary step of saying Trump’s plan to retain a stake in the Trump Organization while his adult sons run the day-to-day operations falls short of what the OGE had advised him to do. The office counseled Trump to sell off his business assets and place the proceeds in a trust overseen by an independent manager.

Shaub says: “I wish circumstances were different and I didn’t feel the need to make public remarks today. Of Trump’s plan, he says: “It doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting” and that previous presidents have followed.

Shaub says he is happy to provide Trump “constructive feedback” on how to divest his business interests.