A constitutional cloud hangs over President Donald Trump s lease to operate a hotel out of the government-owned Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., according to a new government report .

The General Services Administrations inspector general found Wednesday that the agency ignored the Constitutions emoluments clauses when it reviewed the 2014 deal in light of Trumps 2016 election win. The GSA had concluded in March 2017 that the hotel was not in violation of its lease, which forbids any benefits going to elected officials.

But according to the new watchdog report, lawyers at the agency did not investigate whether the Constitutions domestic or foreign emoluments clauses posed a problem for a hotel owned by the president of the United States. The emoluments clauses prohibit federal officials from receiving any financial or material benefit from a foreign government , a U.S. state government or any part of the federal government . The report also found that there was no undue influence involved in the approval of the lease.

We found that GSA recognized that the Presidents business interest in the [Old Post Office] lease raised issues under the Constitutions Emoluments Clauses that might cause a breach of the lease; however, GSA decided not to address those issues in connection with the management of the lease, the inspector general report says. That decision, it continued, leaves a constitutional cloud over the lease.

Since Trump came into office, his Trump International Hotel in D.C. has been a source of controversy, as lobbyists , foreign governments and corporate executives have patronized the establishment in a bid to curry favor with the White House.

The report was the result of multiple requests to the inspector generals office from members of Congress and good-government groups to investigate the management of the presidents lease. These requests largely came from congressional Democrats who were then in the minority in Congress. These members now control the oversight committees in the House of Representatives.