While many were sleeping late last Friday, the White House informed 17 inspectors general (IGs) that their services were no longer required.

New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang told Newsweek that "there should be public outrage" at the dismissal of federal IGs.

In a dramatic turn of events, Phyllis Fong, the USDA Inspector General, was escorted out of her office for refusing to comply with her dismissal by the Trump administration. This incident raises ...

Trump’s freeze on federal funds, fake buyout offers, and effort to fire inspector generals are about daring Democrats to try to stop him.

There are legal constraints in place that are designed to prevent many of the president's recent firings. So why is Trump making the moves anyway?

In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination ...

The White House removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency including the Agriculture ...

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his baseless claim that diversity hiring could be to blame for a mid-air plane crash that killed 67 people.Trump ordered a review of all federal aviation ...

President Donald Trump’s firings sets up another major legal clash over Congress’ power to put limits on the removal of ...

One Harvard Law School professor was skeptical that the removal of the inspectors general was not legally allowed -- but he did point to other provisions of the Inspector General Act that would ...

The White House did not immediately comment Saturday ... The role of the modern-day inspector general dates to post-Watergate Washington, when Congress installed offices inside agencies as ...

Inspectors general are "on the beat preventing bad ... the taxpayer tens of billions of dollars every year.” The White House did not comment Saturday. President Donald Trump was in Las Vegas ...