Peter Baker: Trump Firing 17 Inspectors General Is Against the Law

RUSH EXCERPT:
BAKER: "Well, look, Trump in his first term made clear he didn’t particularly like people who were independent minded and didn’t report to him who were monitoring these executive departments and executive agencies for abuse or, you know, misconduct. He quarreled with a number of these inspectors general and in fact, fired a number of them in his final, you know, time in office as well. But this is the first mass purge we’ve seen like this. And the Congress had anticipated this, tried to head this off. They passed a law in 2022 saying that a president can’t simply dismiss these inspector generals who are meant to be independent without giving cause and giving a 30 day notice to Congress, neither of which he’s done here. So he is in defiance, at least of that law at this point. We’ll see if anybody, you know, holds them accountable in that way. But it’s not the first thing he’s done in the in the last week since he’s taken office, in which he seems to be in contravention of federal law."