The Inspector General Scandal That Wasn’tPresident Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general puts him on the path to fulfill a campaign promise: making inspectors general independent from the people they investigate.Scott Walter and Sarah Lee
February 15, 2025If the federal government’s fleet of inspectors general had been doing their jobs, would DOGE even exist?
The question arises in the wake of President Donald Trump’s mass firing of 17 of these ostensibly independent, in-house investigators, 8 of whom are suing the administration for wrongful termination.
Every day brings new DOGE revelations of waste, whether it’s DOGE-meister Elon Musk asking why 150-year-olds are still getting Social Security checks, or Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), chair of the Senate’s DOGE Caucus, highlighting the U.S. Agency for International Development’s grants to Ukrainian fashion models and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (For more, see TheDogeFiles.org.)
What took so long?
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