Senate Democrats requested for a Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee listening to over the current inspectors basic firings by President Trump, in a letter Wednesday.
“President Trump’s sudden removal of 18 Inspectors General on January 25, 2025 and removal of the Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development on February 11, 2025, was a clear violation of federal law and poses an existential threat to the federal government’s ability to conduct independent oversight,” based on the letter, which was addressed to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the committee.
The letter is signed by Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Tammy Duckworth (In poor health.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.).
“Congress has a vested interest in ensuring that Inspectors General are protected from political interference and remain trusted, nonpartisan, and accountable watchdogs of the federal government,” the senators wrote.
Final month, greater than a dozen inspectors basic had been ousted by the president. Departments affected by the firings included the Protection Division, the State Division, Power Division, Division of Housing and City Growth, and Division of Veterans Affairs.
On Tuesday, the inspector basic for the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth was booted by the Trump White Home shortly after a report vital of the international help freeze was issued.
“These unprecedented terminations put at grave risk the independence of traditionally nonpartisan Inspectors General and contravened statutory requirements that Presidents must notify Congress prior to an Inspector General’s removal and provide a substantive rationale,” the Democrats mentioned of their letter.
The Hill has reached out to the workplace of Paul and the White Home for remark.
