The Trump administration purged at least a dozen federal inspectors general overnight Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News. It is an unprecedented move that will likely result in legal ...
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 control ...
The conversations about ousting these government watchdogs began during Trump's transition back to the White House.
The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a ...
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. There's Actually an ...
Though inspectors general are presidential appointees, some serve presidents of both parties. All are expected to be nonpartisan. Trump also replaced multiple key inspectors general in 2020 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON—A swath of inspectors general were fired Friday night by the White House, people familiar with the matter said, as President Trump removed the official government watchdogs across a ...