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A former inspector general claimed on MSNBC that President Donald Trump's mass firing of 17 federal watchdogs on Friday constitutes a "threat to democracy."
The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are ...
Cardell Richardson Sr. - Inspector General of the State Department. Christi Grimm - Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Michael Missal, [10] VA IG; Paul K. Martin, USAID IG [11] (fired February 11, 2025) The Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, former CIGIE chair, [12] was reportedly not ...
Inspector General Dismissed By Trump Calls Mass Firings A Threat To Democracy. The inspectors general dismissed by President Trump served in several departments, including the Defense Department ...
The role of the modern-day inspector general dates to post-Watergate Washington, when Congress installed offices inside agencies as an independent check against mismanagement and abuse of power. Though inspectors general are presidential appointees, some serve presidents of both parties. All are expected to be nonpartisan.
Michael K. Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, was dismissed April 7, 2020. On Friday night, April 7, at 10 p.m., Trump sent a letter to Congress saying he intended to dismiss Michael K. Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, giving as a reason only that he had "lost confidence" in the IG.
Joseph Vincent Cuffari (born 1959) is an American government administrator who has been the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security since 2019.. He previously held positions in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
The eight inspectors general claimed Trump broke the law when he attempted to terminate them without justifying their removal or giving Congress 30-day notices. "The purported firings violated ...