Posted on 01/25/2025 8:21:59 AM PST by RandFan
President Trump on Friday ousted several inspectors general within government agencies overnight, shaking up federal oversight just days after returning to the White House, an official confirmed to NewsNation.
Trump fired around 17 watchdogs at various agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and others. Those within the Pentagon, State Department and Transportation Department were notified of the termination over email, according to the Washington Post, which was the first to report on the firings.
The ouster of the independent inspectors may be in violation of the federal law as the president is required to give a 30-day notice to Congress of his intent, The Post noted.
“It’s a widespread massacre,” one of the fired inspectors told The Post. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.”
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The only reason he did it at night was because after his trip to NC and California, he ran out of daylight.
More winning.
Lol What an amazing President!
Exactly. DJT works all the time. Some people do work all the time.
“Undermines the entire deep state system”
Thats the actual translation...
17 you say? interesting number for a number of reasons. Also having a PRESIDENT who does not call a lid on day right after lunch after starting at 10am is refreshing. he has done more since Monday that Biden did in years.God Bless you Mr President!
and Hedgeseth made it say goodbye to a wimpy military bout damn time!
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Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists.
Non loyalists is what undermined the entire system in the first place.
I guess it was no problemo when both Clinton and Obama did the same thing.
Yet, kept Horowitz. Maybe it’s a signal to him to get his act together.
They rarely mention that the Supreme court has repeatedly ruled the President has sole authority on Executive Branch staff and congress can pass all the rules they want but they have no effect on the separate branch.
Trump was the one who appointed them during his first term..
“Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.”
As if most of the current ones are Democrat loyalists.
Saturday night’s alright for firing.
From my research, there are 40 IGs...
So...
YAY!!!
I hope this doesn’t cause him grief:
“The ouster of the independent inspectors may be in violation of the federal law as the president is required to give a 30-day notice to Congress of his intent, The Post noted”.
Oh, little deep stater, don't be so demure. Let us know when it's a "genocide".
....required to give a 30-day notice to Congress of his intent.”
“Required”? Where specifically is that “required” by law or constitution?
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