Golden Finance reported that in a letter to Democratic SEC Chairman Gary Gensler on September 10, Republican Congressmen Jim Jordan, Patrick McHenry and James Comer accused the agency of hiring "individuals from left-wing organizations to senior positions at the SEC." They claimed that email communications disclosed in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rulemaking comments may indicate that Gensler's decision to hire the agency's director of trading and markets, Dr. Haoxiang Zhu, was "influenced by his political connections." "As this letter suggests, the Securities and Exchange Commission appears to illegally consider applicants' political ideology when hiring bureaucrats. If these allegations are true, the SEC has violated the Civil Service Reform Act by allowing employees with specific ideologies to enter the agency, which undermines the SEC's so-called impartiality," the letter reads.