Just before the holidays, the Senate, in a party-line 53-43 en bloc vote, approved five of President Donald Trump’s picks for agency inspectors general, bringing the total number of confirmed watchdogs during his second term to at least eight.
A Government Executive analysis found that six of these IGs previously worked in Trump’s first or second administration, often at the departments they now have inspection authority over. Government oversight advocates argue these appointments, in conjunction with removals and replacements of several watchdogs last year, could transform the IG position from an independent watchdog into a partisan official.
“The notion that someone can go from member of the administration to independent overseer of that very same administration strains credulity," said Mark Lee Greenblatt, former Interior IG who was fired by Trump in 2025. “I think the American public would be hard pressed to think that a member of the administration can evaluate the programs and individuals of that administration, or the administration officials and programs of the opposing party, in a fair and independent manner.”
The US media is complicit with this regime. Just using the words “raises fears” leaves open the possibility for some other explanation. Call it what is. These loyalists will continue to do as the others have done.
If people don’t fight back soon, this revolution will succeed without a single drop of blood being spilled
Nobody that he or his cronies appoints will ever be there based on merit
It’s always about putting in people who will toe his line
