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On January 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the immediate firing of at least 17 inspectors general across various federal government agencies. The late-night mass dismissal has raised significant concerns about government oversight, accountability, and potential legal violations, and was called a "Friday night coup", "Friday night purge", "midnight purge" [1] or "illegal ...
On March 28, 2018, Trump announced on Twitter that Shulkin had been fired. [6] [7] Following his dismissal, controversy erupted about efforts by the White House to privatize VA healthcare [8] and Shulkin's allegedly inappropriate taxpayer-funded foreign trips. [9] Robert Wilkie: March 28, 2018 May 29, 2018 Peter O'Rourke: May 29, 2018 July 30, 2018
The other 47 U.S. attorney posts were either already vacant by the end of Barack Obama's administration or the incumbent U.S. attorney had resigned at the beginning of Trump's administration. [3] Similarly, in February 2021, 56 Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign by the end of the month during the Biden administration. [4]
PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, on Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
During his first term, Trump fired four IGs in less than two months in 2020. This included the State Department, whose inspector general had played a role in the president's impeachment proceedings.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive on Wednesday, her first day in office, that could allow Justice Department lawyers to be fired if they refuse to advance ...
In April and May 2020, United States President Donald Trump dismissed the inspectors general (IGs) of five cabinet departments in the space of six weeks. [1] [2] The inspectors general removed were Michael K. Atkinson, Intelligence, on April 3; Glenn Fine (acting), Defense, April 7; Christi Grimm (acting), Health and Human Services, May 1; Mitch Behm (acting), Transportation, May 15; and Steve ...
Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would ...