WashingtonTrump gave aide Natalie Harp $45,000 in cash.
Federal law bars staff pay beyond salary — a personal gift isn’t.
The gift exemption, meant for holiday tokens, lets a president fund aides personally with no oversight.
No agency has said whether it will investigate the payments.
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- discloses $45k cash gifts to White House aides; ethics lawyer claims federal salary-supplementation violation, frames as unauthorized 'tipping'