• Fact-checking Trump's claims during his address to Congress

    Fact-checking Trump's claims during his address to Congress

    Mar 05, 2025 11:50 PM EDT

    ... He said that $350 billion has been spent on supporting Ukraine. It's actually just over $180 billion. That's according to the Ukraine oversight inspector general. And that includes money that's spent inside the U.S. on weapons manufacturing. The president also said that fentanyl coming from Canada ...

  • Fact-checking Trump's 2025 address to Congress

    Fact-checking Trump's 2025 address to Congress

    Mar 05, 2025 05:26 PM EDT

    ... previously told PolitiFact. WATCH: Ukraine scrambles to salvage fractured alliance with U.S. as military aid is suspended Ukraine Oversight, the website of the special inspector general for Operation Atlantic Resolve, which the U.S. government created in 2014 to coordinate its military aid to Ukraine, said that as of ...

  • Fact-checking Trump and Vance's attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

    Fact-checking Trump and Vance's attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

    Mar 02, 2025 07:25 PM EDT

    ... senior defense and security adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told PolitiFact earlier this month. Ukraine Oversight, the website of the special inspector general for Operation Atlantic Resolve, which the U.S. government created in 2014 to coordinate its military aid to Ukraine, said that as of ...

  • WATCH: New York Gov. Hochul holds briefing as she weighs removing Mayor Eric Adams from office

    WATCH: New York Gov. Hochul holds briefing as she weighs removing Mayor Eric Adams from office

    Feb 20, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... plans to propose legislation that would require City Hall to operate within new guardrails meant to “reestablish trust." The proposals include establishing a new deputy inspector general focused on New York City; creating a mechanism for the city's comptroller, public advocate and council speaker to launch lawsuits against the ...

  • Inspectors general fired by Trump issue warning about lack of oversight

    Inspectors general fired by Trump issue warning about lack of oversight

    Feb 19, 2025 11:40 PM EDT

    ... is also leading mass firings that are about to hit the Pentagon as early as this week. What's the risk, Rob, of a weakened inspector general office as Elon Musk's team is taking over that agency? Robert Storch: I obviously can't comment on any specifics, but what ...

  • Fact-checking Trump and Musk's claims that they are cutting government 'fraud and abuse'

    Fact-checking Trump and Musk's claims that they are cutting government 'fraud and abuse'

    Feb 16, 2025 07:46 PM EDT

    ... get their jobs back. The lawsuit says Trump did not follow the law that requires him to notify Congress 30 days before he removes inspectors general. (Trump also pushed out a handful of inspectors general in spring 2020.) Trump later fired U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General Paul ...

  • Treasury watchdog launches audit of DOGE access to federal government's payment system

    Treasury watchdog launches audit of DOGE access to federal government's payment system

    Feb 14, 2025 08:41 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government's payment system, after Democratic senators raised red flags about the access provided to Trump aide Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team ...

  • Musk's DOGE needs to be 'much more transparent' in spending cuts, former GAO head says

    Musk's DOGE needs to be 'much more transparent' in spending cuts, former GAO head says

    Feb 12, 2025 11:30 PM EDT

    David Walker: Well, first, the inspectors general are supposed to be on the front line of fighting fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. That's not the GAO's job. That's the inspector generals' job. And I -- and whoever advised the president to be able to fire all those inspectors ...

  • Government watchdogs fired by Trump sue and ask judge to reinstate them

    Government watchdogs fired by Trump sue and ask judge to reinstate them

    Feb 12, 2025 06:21 PM EDT

    At the time of the firings, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said there may have been good reasons for the terminations but that Congress needed to know. The lawsuit comes a day after the White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, following a ...

  • UN AIDS agency says HIV infections could soar worldwide if U.S. drops support

    UN AIDS agency says HIV infections could soar worldwide if U.S. drops support

    Feb 11, 2025 11:40 PM EDT

    ... discussed the shift in HIV funding with Angeli Achrekar of UNAIDS, which provides services in 55 countries. ... Amna Nawaz: A scathing report by the acting inspector general of USAID, the agency almost completely dismantled in the first weeks of this Trump administration, says thousands of tons of food set to ...