Posted on 01/25/2025 9:58:21 AM PST by bitt
In a decisive move that has sent shockwaves through the political elite in Washington, President Trump has dismissed 17 inspectors general.
“The inspectors general were dismissed via emails from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, with no notice sent to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who have pledged bipartisan support for the watchdogs, in advance of the firings, the person said,” reports Politico. “The emails gave no substantive explanation for the dismissals, with at least one citing ‘changing priorities’ for the move, the person added.”
Trump’s brazen move provides an early test for Congress, less than a week into Trump’s return to office, and in particular to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) who has long championed the independence of inspectors general. And it shows how willing the president is to stretch the limits of his authority to dismantle the federal government bureaucracy that he and his allies label the “deep state.”
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Inspectors general are tasked with ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse, one of Trump’s stated goals. But he has remained long suspicious of federal government officials who he blames with stymieing action during his first term in office. Trump’s early picks for top government jobs show the value he is placing on loyalty above all else.
Naturally, Democrats and the media are up in arms over this story:
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If he could fire them guess they work for him.
I PRAY that DEMOCRAT HOROWITZ was the FIRST ONE FIRED! WAS HE FIRED???
Yes! Don’t give them a single day to cause trouble.
I’m not ready to accept the article just yet. For all I know, Trump fired IGs for not doing their job.
These so-called “watchdogs” have been doing a lousy job.
Of whom, or what, are they "supposed to be independent"?
Right. So we just wrapped up four years of basically nothing but those things. So what you’re saying is they were fired because they weren’t doing their job?
Will ‘changing priorities’ do for you??
“..the independence of inspectors general…”
If only.
The media never reported Obama’s purges, hoping no one would notice.
I fully expect President Trump to name new people to these positions.
-PJ
Oh that is very good move. The IGs have been more about protecting the Government agencies then doing their job for decades.
The agencies they are supposed to hold accountable. And that’s the problem; they are buddies with the people they’re supposed to hold accountable and are thus not doing their jobs.
It’s old now, but obama’s firing of IG Gerald Walpin and a bunch of others comes to mind. He put in, instead, people who were yes-men to whoever pulled their strings. Since that time, IG’s are a total waste of time and money.
And anybody who wants to argue otherwise needs to explain how the Biden regime was able to be so utterly, utterly lawless in EVERY AGENCY.
DOGE was created because the IGs didn’t do their job ...
Too bad Horowitz at DOJ was not fired. His reports consistently gave cover to the Deep State.
“I PRAY that DEMOCRAT HOROWITZ was the FIRST ONE FIRED! WAS HE FIRED??”
Actually, he was the only one who WASN’T fired. Trump kept him.
Maybe if the Dems hadn’t urged the bureaucracy to resist the first time around, this wouldn’t have happened.
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