In 2019, President Donald Trump appointed a lawyer. Mark Lee Greenblatt To root out fraud, abuse and corruption in the internal department. GreenBlatt instructed 270 employees to conduct audit, inspections and investigations by 70,000 federal staff, ordering 30 % of the US’s natural resources, 20 % of public land and relationships and relationships. 573 Native American tribes and villages.
He found a gas marketing outfit We conspired to buy oil and gas companies Rental Federation Land, Land Management Bureau I saw pornography on the government computerTribal police officer I stole $ 40,000 for tribal youth conversion programs.And 3 overseas oil equipment workers and 3 companies I acted carelessly A fatal explosion occurred in the 2012 case. And it took two months in 2019.
Until last week, GreenBlatt is one of the 73 prosecutors working in the US government, and all independent watchers who maintain tabs in the federal agency are collected. Revenue Every year and Spend more than $ 6 trillion. Friday night, he and his colleagues 17 Summary has been dismissedAs a violation of American law. Greenblatt said, “President Trump fired me last night. Post in LinkedIn On the weekend. “All are so surreal.”
The launch leaves another department that forms the state and climate policy without the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Energy, the Environmental Protection Bureau and Independent Supervisory. As President Donald Trump attempts, this comes at the moment of extreme disturbance and uncertainty. Change the federal government In his image. The Trump administration temporarily suspended communication with the public for the first few days. We ordered the freezing of the tributary of the federal subsidies The nation’s disaster relief department through programs such as the Federal Emergency Management Bureau.
“All of this is corrosive. Trump said, “Eyes and distrust have corrupted the health of all federal offices. How should I operate under such conditions? ”
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Legal experts and non -profit organizations suspect that Trump will replace the prosecutor who is dismissed with a spokesman. Michael Burger, the managing director of Sabin, said, “Trump’s efforts to terminate Trump’s current IG list and the loyalty that will be noticed in the future if they can guess are unprecedented and profoundly. It’s a problem. ” Climate change method center of Columbia University.
Federal employees at local offices and institution headquarters in Washington DC will be in danger of having an internal report and complaints that they will be ignored or ignored. One of the important roles of the prosecutor is to provide protection when the federal employee experiences retaliation at work after corruption or inappropriate reporting. EPA scientist Alarm increased in 2019 and 2020 For example, he reported that he was retaliated by his or her organ to whistle to the Prime Minister, which was inappropriate for the risk of chemicals.
Sean O’donnel, which Trump appointed an EPA inspector in 2020, I started the investigation According to the internal accuser protection law, three of the five scientists refused to request a vacation time, received a monetary award, and found that the performance review was randomly reviewed. The prosecutor’s office recommended that the EPA administrator would “consider the appropriate corrective action.”
O’Donnell Leave the door to monitoring the tributary of the funds He was one of the 18 prosecutors who were fired by Trump last week in the two -party infrastructure law and inflation reduction passed under former President Cho Viden.
How to reduce inflation with more than $ 300 billion in clean energy incentives and subsidies Allocate money We support independent supervision of this expenditure, including new funds for inspectors general office. Most of the funds were already paid in that law, and Trump I moved to freeze things left When he tries to reconstruct the government. Legal experts say that it is movement Illegal and unconstitutionalBut even if the judge canceled the freezing, the watchdock, which closely investigates these funds, will no longer be in the post.
“All checks and balances have been removed. She added to the federal staff: “I can’t do what I have to do to protect Americans. And that is the point. ”
president The launch was neglected On the weekend. He told reporters, “This is very standard. However, the only other president who fired more than 12 prosecutors at one time was Ronald Reagan, and later Congress imposed a restriction on rapid changes in these positions. Burger explained that if the dismissal violates the law, it is necessary to notice and explain the parliament. The White House should warn 30 days before removing the inspector.
The dismissal hindered the lawmakers on both sides of the passage. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican Senator of the Maine, said, “I do not understand why I will dismiss individuals who are sowing waste, fraud, and abuse. I told POLITICO. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts Said in the post about X Trump said, “We are opening a way for a wide range of corruption,” and many other prominent Democrats expressed similar concerns.
But many Republicans were not members of parliament. Senator Tommy Tuberville, the cause of the Republic of Alabama, said, “He is a boss. “We must clean the house.”
