Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC ths semester.  From the moment Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his ...

Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) out of her office Monday after ... requiring the president to notify Congress of an inspector general ...

An inspector general’s office is intended to operate independently. The firings could clear the way for Trump to install loyalists in the role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the ...

Officials from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency have questioned the legality of the moves, given that Congress ... the Inspector General’s office as important ...

The White House press office did not respond to ... 30 days notice for the removal of an Inspector General and reasoning for the removal to Congress. The President failed to comply with this ...

there has to be a 30-day notice to Congress, according to the Congressional Research Service’s Rules for the Removal of Inspectors General. “An Inspector General may be removed from office ...

not least because they may no longer have a safe avenue through their inspector general office. We hope Congress will take on Mr. Trump to assure the continued viability of the inspector general ...

Trump's firings -- which violated a 2022 law that requires that Congress ... General Steven Stebbins is now serving as the acting inspector general at the department. A spokesman for the VA's ...

The White House press office did not respond to requests for comment. The role of the modern-day inspector general dates to post-Watergate Washington, when Congress installed offices inside ...