Trump relieves independent supervisors at US government agencies

The new government of Donald Trump has fired more than ten independent Inspector General who worked at US government agencies. International press agencies report this. The precise number is unclear. Reuters news agency speaks on the basis of an e-mail from a dismissed inspector of ‘approximately’ seventeen supervisors.

According to an American law a president must inform the congress for such fires for thirty days. The reason for the dismissal must also be mentioned. Two years ago, that law was tightened by demanding that the notification contains a “substantial reasons”.

It is unclear why the inspectors have been fired exactly, but it is part of a larger wave of dismissal from the White House. According to The Washington Postwho was the first to report the dismissals, several of the inspectors concerned were appointed by Trump during his first term as president.

Out of one letter which is in the hands of the Police’s news site that the inspectors had received an e-mail stating that “because of changing priorities” their function was “ended” immediately. This includes watchdogs from the Ministry of Defense, Education and Agriculture.

‘Front pair of the lawless approach’

“There may be a good reason why the [inspecteur-generaals] are fired. If so, we should know, “said Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in a statement Against the American media outlet Government Executive. “I would like more explanation from President Trump. Anyway, the detailed notification thirty days before dismissal required was not provided to the congress, “said Grassley. The Republican Senator said already against polico in November That Trump should not drop the inspectors. In their own words, Grassley works closely with the watchdogs.

The Democrats also sound the alarm. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, registered A message on X That President Trump ‘dismantles’ controls on the power and releases the way for ‘widespread corruption’. Senator Chuck Chumer called it a “taste of the lawless approach that Donald Trump and his government use too often now that he is president”, according to the AP news agency.

The function of the inspectors was created in 1978 by the congress after the water gate scandal. The aim was for independent watchdogs to work at federal ministries and departments. In total there are 74 of that kind of inspectors in the United States. In his first term, Trump dismissed five inspectors who investigated his government. Trump said they had been treated ‘unfair’ by them. At the time, he mentioned different substitutes.

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