WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration ...

President Donald Trump is taking an unorthodox path to shake up Washington and change federal policy to his priorities.

Delaware lawmakers are once again proposing creating an office of the inspector general. Delaware lawmakers are again trying ...

The email ousting at least one top federal watchdog from their post was so short, it could fit in a tweet. The two-sentence long letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector ...

"Ultimately, these inspectors general serve at the pleasure of the president. He wants new people in there. He wants new people focused on getting out waste and fraud and abuse and reforming these ...

President Donald Trump defended his firing of 17 inspectors general at federal agencies, after concerns were raised about the Friday-night purge. “It’s a very common thing to do,” Trump told ...

An inspector general’s office is intended to operate independently. Partly in reaction to Trump’s last IG firings, Congress built new guardrails intended to protect them. A 2022 law requires ...

The two-sentence long letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General Christi Grimm cited “changing priorities” under the President Donald Trump's new administration ...

It also presents a test for Trump’s new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was narrowly confirmed by the Senate Friday night, with the Defense Department’s inspector general among those ...