The Office of the United States Trade Representative stated that it had no records in response to our request for communications between top agency officials and former U.S. Representative Mark Meadows or his staff for the time period spanning February 1, 2020, to April 7, 2020.

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FOIA to multiple agencies seeking Rep. Mark Meadows’s text messages with agency officials in light of Meadows’s expected appointment to White House Chief of Staff.