Exclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He's Speaking Out. [View all]

Source: Mother Jones



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The former inspector general for the US Labor Department on losing his job and the dangers of DOGE.





.................. But in his first week in office, President Donald Trump did something unprecedented. He fired at least 17 IGs—more than any president in history—without notifying Congress or providing a substantive rationale for doing so, both of which are required by federal statute.

Trump, instead, said he would “put good people in there that will be very good.”

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“It was a power purge to get rid of the people, the watchdogs, that actually provide oversight,” he says of Trump’s mass firings. “We are really the eyes and the ears for the American public.”
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Turner has spent much of his career as an IG, including stints at the Department of Defense and the Army. Since 2021, he’d overseen hundreds of employees who worked to publicize waste within the Labor Department. His office uncovered widespread unemployment insurance fraud after the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, 2,000 people have been for filing fraudulent claims that cost U.S. taxpayers $47 billion.

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“They have basically dismantled the civil service,” Turner says. “What they have done is cruel.”


Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-inspectors-general-mass-firings-labor-department-larry-turner/

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