COMMENTARY | Rebalancing Checks and Balances: How to Curb Executive Abuse
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Jeff Ruch | April 25, 2025
President Trump has conclusively demonstrated that the executive branch cannot be trusted to police itself in following the law ...
COMMENTARY | Trump and the IGs – From Watchdogs to Lapdogs
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Jeff Ruch | March 25, 2025
The role of the Inspector General requires political independence to function properly. That independence is now irretrievably lost ...
COMMENTARY | Administration of “Alternative Facts” – No Fact Checkers Welcome
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Jeff Ruch | February 13, 2025
It is often said that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not to their own set of facts. That cannot be said of Donald Trump ...
STATEMENT | The Trump Administration’s Purge of the Civil Service
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Tim Whitehouse | January 27, 2025
We have no doubt the President fired at least 17 Inspectors General because they were carrying out their responsibilities in a non-partisan manner ...
STATEMENT | IG Report Finds EPA New Chemical Review Process Badly Broken
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Susan Sargent | August 2, 2023
EPA has not complied with applicable record keeping and quality assurance requirements when implementing its New Chemicals Program ...
