Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced legislation to create a federal Anti-Corruption Bureau that would investigate alleged corruption involving President Donald Trump’s administration and future presidents. The proposal matters because it would establish a dedicated mechanism for scrutinising potential abuses of presidential power, though the article text provided does not describe its powers, structure or prospects in Congress.

Schumer unveiled the bill on Thursday at Public Citizen’s “Combating Corruption” event, where he criticised Trump’s alleged corruption. He described the plan as the “biggest, boldest and broadest” proposal of its kind, according to the article. The announcement comes from a Democratic Senate leader and is framed as applying beyond the current administration to future presidencies.