A pair of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s firing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ...
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 ...
If an independent oversight professional can be summarily fired for doing his or her job, there will be a permanent chilling ...
WASHINGTON — Robert Storch, the inspector general at the Defense Department, was among more than a dozen IGs at federal agencies fired by President Donald Trump “It’s a very common thing to ...
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 ...
President Donald Trump’s Friday night firing of 17 inspectors general — including the top watchdogs for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs — has left the future work of the ...
To fire IGs, in other words, is to open the door to abuses. (The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Agriculture was, among other things, investigating an Elon Musk startup. When she ...
(The Hill) — President Trump’s White House fired the inspector ... least 17 inspectors general, including those who worked in the State Department, Energy Department, Defense Department ...
A former inspector general (IG) who was dismissed on Friday ... Trump dismissed IGs at agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and ...
A New Orleans City Council committee is looking into allegations that Inspector General Ed Michel made sexist and disparaging comments about public officials, based on a leaked complaint made by ...