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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... government watchdog warned Monday. The new administration’s rapid dismantling of the agency has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the agency's inspector general’s office said. That includes a greatly reduced ability to ensure no aid falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or goes ...
... they kind of feel around them," Burke said. The department's leadership also has expressed concern about the potential impact on nursing in the VA, she said. More than 80% of facilities are experiencing a severe nursing shortage, according to a 2024 report from the VA Office of Inspector General.
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