Key facts
- Democrats are investigating a former White House official's ties to an oil company.
- Brittany Kelm, a former senior energy adviser, joined Sable Offshore Corp. after leaving the White House in August.
- Kelm's White House role included assisting Sable Offshore Corp. in restarting oil production platforms off Santa Barbara.
- Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, and Rep. Salud Carbajal sent a letter to Kelm seeking information.
- The inquiry follows a POLITICO report and is part of broader Democratic scrutiny of Trump administration energy policies.
Senate Democrats are scrutinizing the connections between a former Trump administration official and an oil company, seeking to understand the extent of government support provided to the firm before the official took a position there. Brittany Kelm, who served as a senior energy adviser on the National Energy Dominance Council and worked on restarting oil platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara for Sable Offshore Corp., left the White House in August to become Sable Offshore's vice president of policy and commercial.