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   Gabe Ortíz (tusk81@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 02:07:01 JST Gabe Ortíz

   “Contempt for law. Contempt for Congress. Contempt for oversight. That is the lesson of President Donald Trump’s Friday night massacre of at least 15 inspectors general — most of them appointed by Trump himself in his first term.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/25/trump-firing-14-inspectors-general-illegal/

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     “It offers a chilling foreshadowing of Trump unbound, heedless of the rule of law and unwilling to tolerate any potential impediment to his authority.”

     “Some of the inspectors general, I’m told, might turn up for work next week because they view their removal as unlawful.”

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     “The firings don’t just pose a fundamental challenge to the inspectors general and the agencies they serve — they are a threat to the authority of Congress itself. What is the point of laws if lawmakers permit them to be so cavalierly ignored? Yet the response of Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has been a thundering champion of inspectors general, was disturbingly muted.”

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/25/trump-firing-14-inspectors-general-illegal/