The Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration stated that it had no records regarding communications with Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and others American Oversight asked for these records after the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform detailed how senior White House officials in the early days of the Trump administration worked outside standard policymaking processes to advance a nuclear exports plan involving sharing nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia.

American Oversight has filed FOIA requests across the administration to find out more about Trump administration appointees' push to sell U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.

FOIA to the International Trade Administration seeking communications of high-ranking agency officials with non-governmental individuals and organizations with ties to the nuclear technology industry.