On October 12, 1978, Congress passed the Inspector General Act, which established twelve Federal Offices of Inspector General tasked with rooting out fraud and waste and providing non-partisan ...

Trump fired Robert Storch, the Defense Department's inspector general, along with the inspectors of 16 other agencies last month. Storch and seven other inspectors sued Trump this week ...

The IGs allege that Trump failed to notify Congress about the firings at least 30 days before they occurred and did not ...

Similarly, Robert Storch, the former Department of Defense inspector general who is also part of the lawsuit, told ABC News that it “sends a message that this sort of independent oversight is ...

It’s not immediately clear whether the firings are legal, as the Trump administration is required to give a 30-day notice.

The Justice Department and the White House didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Another inspector general was fired in the same manner Tuesday as the larger group of IGs.

A pair of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s firing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ...

President Donald Trump fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International ... Health and Human Services, Labor, Defense, the White House’s Office of Personnel Management, the ...

If an independent oversight professional can be summarily fired for doing his or her job, there will be a permanent chilling ...

Paul K. Martin, appointed by President Joe Biden in December 2023, was informed of his dismissal through an email from the ...

the Treasury’s deputy inspector general, wrote in a letter. “We expect to begin our fieldwork immediately,” Sciburba wrote. “Given the breadth of this effort, the audit will likely not be ...