Donald Trump is a fast worker. It’s been less than two weeks since he won the election, and already he’s entangled himself in a series of conflicts of interest that could easily rise to the level of a constitutional crisis.

The crux of the problem, of course, is that the president-elect runs a large, global corporate empire that he has no intention of liquidating, but instead plans to hand over to three of his adult children—Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump—and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The conflicts inherent in that scheme started to become vividly clear last week, when Ivanka sat in on a meeting her father had with Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe, and, with Eric, joined her father in meeting with a group of businessmen from India who, by their own account, talked to the Trumps about expanding their dealings with the organization.

Meanwhile, the recently opened Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., took the initiative to invite local diplomats to a reception and espouse the comforts and convenience of staying there—something foreign nations seem eager to do in order to win the good graces of the next commander-in-chief. As one Asian diplomat told The Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’”

The mixture of business and politics in the Trump family’s dealing with foreign powers and corporations is troubling enough, but the solutions being bandied about all have a fatal hurdle in common: They’d require a Republican Congress to take a stand against Trump. Speaking to The Washington Post, Noah Bookbinder, who serves as the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says “influential members of Congress” could “demand things” like a release of information about Trump family holdings.

The conservative writer David Frum has a more specific solution: a “law requiring [the] president to release his tax returns.” Democratic Representative Katherine Clark has introduced a “Presidential Accountability Act” which would require “the President and Vice President to place their assets in a certified blind trust or disclose to the Office of Government Ethics and the public when they make a decision that affects their personal finances.”

