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... and Boeing could be flying astronauts by now if Congress had provided more funding early on. The contracts with NASA are worth billions. NASA's inspector general has estimated the per-seat cost for SpaceX at $55 million, while the price of a Russian Soyuz seat has averaged $80 million ...
... of Congress raised concerns in December after Fisher was awarded a $400 million contract for border wall construction. Within two weeks, the defense department's inspector general had launched an investigation, which is ongoing, according to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, a critic who questioned whether the ...
Wednesday on the NewsHour, all 50 states have begun lifting restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Plus: The firing of a State Department inspector general investigating Mike Pompeo, a cyclone slams India and Bangladesh, child deportations during COVID-19, Brazil’s coronavirus crisis, modeling infectious ...
... in order to protect an inspector general. But these officials who I'm talking to Judy saying this is a five-alarm fire inside the inspector general community. Current inspector generals are scared, the mood is negative. And the idea that inspector generals are there to speak truth to power ...
... life that anyone has ever said about me."Also Tuesday, Biden was asked about Trump's firing of Steve Linick as the State Department’s inspector general. Some Republicans have defended the move, arguing that it was within the president's rights, but Biden and other Democrats say it is ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his request to remove his department’s Inspector General, Steve Linick. Watch Pompeo's remarks in the video player above. “[Inspectors general] just like all of us, serve at the pleasure of the president of the United States. In this case, I recommended to ...
Democrats say that the Friday night firing of State Department's inspector general may be linked to a Saudi arms deal. Representative Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said today that inspector general Steve Linick was investigating the $7 billion deal. President Trump said that he does ...
... is: I am the state. No Supreme Court has ever agreed with that. Yamiche Alcindor: Well, you are talking about the fact that these removals are unusual. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that he has no idea what the inspector general at the State Department was looking into.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia last year, adding new questions to the watchdog’s abrupt dismissal. Democrats said Monday that ousted Inspector General Steve Linick was probing ...
... Rex Tillerson's hiring freeze and attempts to streamline the agency by slashing its funding and personnel. Trump has been taking aim lately at inspectors general.In April, he fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, for his role in the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump ...
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