While Washington has been consumed by fights over budgets, tariffs, immigration, and foreign policy in recent weeks, a quieter but deeply consequential development has received little attention: the destruction of inspector general independence, and a broader pretense of independent government oversight crashing down.
Two Trump-appointed inspectors general—the officials charged with conducting independent oversight of federal agencies—appear to have stopped pretending to be neutral and instead actively participated in advancing administration initiatives. The watchdogs have crossed a dangerous line. They’ve become lapdogs.
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