(Reuters) – The administration of President Donald Trump dismissed the independent general inspectors of more than a dozen major government agencies late Friday, the American media reported.
The agencies include the departments of defense, state, transport, veterans, housing and urban development, interior and energy, said Washington Post, citing anonymous people familiar with the question.
THE New York Times (NYSE 🙂 said the purge had affected 17 agencies but spared the Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice, Michael Horowitz.
The post said that the layoffs “seemed to violate the federal law, which obliges the congress to receive a 30 -day notice of any intention to dismiss the general inspectors”.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comments on reports.
An Inspector General is an independent position that leads audits, investigations and inspectors on allegations of waste, fraud and abuse. They can be removed by the president or the chief of the agency, according to whom have appointed them or appointed.
Most dismissed persons were people appointed by the first term of Trump 2017-2021, the reporting position, saying that the people affected had been informed by email from the Director of White House they had been dismissed immediately .
