Trump administration knocks out at least 15 oversight websites, saying IGs 'lied to the public'
It's not a shutdown issue: the White House is withholding funds from the umbrella organization for the government's inspectors general.
Natalie Alms | October 1, 2025 01:54 PM ET
Updated, 6:45 p.m.
At least 15 government oversight websites were down — and with them, access to watchdog reports and required hotline and whistleblower links — as of Wednesday evening. That's not due to the federal shutdown that began at midnight; it's a deliberate move by the White House, whose Office of Management and Budget is withholding funds from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, or CIGIE.
The CIGIE's homepage, which was operating normally on Tuesday evening, has been replaced with a single line of text: “Due to a lack of apportionment of funds, this website is currently unavailable.”
The same line is displayed by the Office of Inspector General websites for the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Justice, Interior and Veterans Affairs, and by those of AmeriCorps, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Federal Trade Commission, International Trade Commission, National Archives and Records Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Personnel Management, Smithsonian Institution, and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The watchdog website for the National Labor Relations Board's OIG page gives a 404 error. The Architect of the Capitol’s IG page says “Not found”; a new page offers only hotline information and blames the change on a “funding issue impacting Oversight.gov functions.”
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