President Donald Trump fired multiple independent federal watchdogs, known as inspectors general, in a Friday night purge, removing a significant layer of accountability as he asserts his ...
President Donald Trump on Friday fired at least 12 inspectors general in the federal government, a senior White House official confirmed to NBC News. The move did not affect the inspectors ...
In a late-night Friday move, President Donald Trump fired at least 17 independent watchdogs -- known as inspectors general -- at multiple federal agencies, sources familiar with the move told ...
but an inspector general can serve under multiple presidents. During his first term, Trump fired five inspectors general in less than two months in 2020. This included the State Department ...
According to multiple outlets ... “It’s a widespread massacre,” one of the fired inspectors general told the Washington Post. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists ...
Trump’s Friday night coup to overthrow legally protected independent inspectors general is an attack on transparency and accountability, essential ingredients in our democratic form of ...
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid—which began three weeks ...