Posted on 01/26/2025 6:25:02 AM PST by LouAvul
President Donald Trump fired at least 10-12 inspectors general late Friday and did not follow the 30-day congressional notification that requires providing a specific rationale or case-specific reason, according to a former inspector general community official.
Some of the firings involved the State Department, according to the source. A White House official also confirmed that there were several inspectors general dismissed.
The Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 requires the president to “communicate in writing the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for any such removal or transfer to both Houses of Congress not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed his concern about the firings.
“There may be good reason the IGs were fired. We need to know that if so,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. “I’d like further explanation from President Trump. Regardless, the 30-day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress,” said Grassley, R-Iowa.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, was more direct in her criticism.
“It’s a purge of independent watchdogs in the middle of the night,” she said. “Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse, and preventing misconduct. President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.”
Inspectors general are tasked with conducting independent and objective audits and investigations of government agencies. It is also tasked with preventing and detecting fraud and abuse within government.
Seventy-four government agencies have an inspector general, about half of whom are subject to Senate confirmation, and approximately half are appointed by the agency head.
There is precedent for the mass removal of inspectors general prior to the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan removed all 15 inspectors general within the executive branch, prompting bipartisan concern.
Since the passage of the 2008 law, there have been four instances of a president removing an inspector general. The most recent came in 2024 when President Joe Biden notified Congress of his intent to remove the inspector general of the Railroad Retirement Board, Martin Dickman.
There have also been three instances since 2008 of presidents replacing an inspector general with another Senate-appointed IG.
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Most likely Dem hacks who wanted to stop Trump programs.
independent watchdogs
translation
democrat tools
Nobody was worried about accountability under biden.
Deep State hacks, indeed. Maybe completing an honest audit on the Defense Department would be a good way to keep your job.
BTTT
We won’t need them. We’ve got DOGE.
Then there’s the 7 failed Pentagon audits. Someone’s not doing their job.
The opposite is true. Now there will be accountability.
Two questions.
Is Trump replacing the IGs with his own people or eliminating the office?
Why hasn’t he similarly fired the attorneys general yet?
Send them all to the Fauxcahontas house.
Like one poster mentions, where was the concern for what Biden was doing regarding accountability?
Not a darn thing, nothing, nada, zilch, zero.
In fact, he was allowed to serve out the remainder of his term and do more damage to this nation.
Do not fall for this fake feigned concern about accountability. It's BS Jim, pure & simple. Plant in the brains of those who lack critical thinking skills, and create a crisis that aids the Democrats.
Make it fail to resonate, by ignoring the hyperbole.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, was more direct in her criticism.
“It’s a purge of independent watchdogs in the middle of the night,” she said. “Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse, and preventing misconduct.
Where were they for the last 4 years in a coma?.
One hears of LGBT "communities" and the like, but who has heard of an actual "former inspector general community." Are there dues? Does everyone have to agree politically, like those now-famous 51 "intelligence" people who mounted a defense of Hunter Biden's laptop being "disinformation?"
January 20th, 2025 did not come soon enough.
author Justin Boggs is a Democrat Party operative masquerading as a jernalist.
Pres Trump is being accountable TO THE PUBLIC by firing them! No more bs!
Yes.
It's like the homeless problem that disappears when there's a Democrat resident in the White Hospice.
Gaslight Media.
Sounds like the law is an encroachment on the prerogatives of the executive.
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