Trump condemned over 'blatantly illegal' firings of watchdog chiefs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : It pointed to a Project 2025 training video last year that said Trump should install his "own IGs"
46% : In 2022, Congress strengthened an existing law preventing the arbitrary removal of inspectors general for political ends, and their replacement with officials who were not independent of the White House, in response to Trump firings during his first term.
41% : Ware, who is chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, told Gor that legislation requires Trump to provide a "substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons" for removing inspectors general from their posts.
41% : Greenblatt, who was appointed to the post by Trump in 2019, said the removals "should be setting off alarm bells".
37% : "The move has also met with from members of Congress and others as an attempt by Trump to avoid scrutiny and accountability as he seeks to remake the federal government in support of a corporate, anti-regulatory agenda while cutting support for the poor and vulnerable.
35% : And so the question is: what will President Trump do with these positions?
30% : Trump is flouting the statutory requirements to test just how far he can push the limits because, plain and simple, he doesn't want the oversight that IGs provide.
28% : Trump is not the first president to dismiss inspectors general wholesale on taking office.
16% : Norman Eisen, a former White House ethics lawyer in the Obama administration, told the Guardian that the dismissals fitted a border pattern of actions by Trump who "promised to be a dictator on day one".
13% : Inspectors general dismissed by president sound alarm and say moves pave way for appointment of 'political lackeys'Independent watchdogs summarily dismissed by Donald Trump have denounced the move as illegal and a threat to democracy that paves the way for the appointment of "political lackeys" and widespread institutional corruption.

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