USDA General Inspector who refused to leave a mail escorted by office through security

Last Friday President Donald Trump Cleared several agencies of their general inspectorsRequireing at least 17 people in the role to turn into their work laptops and identity badges immediately. One of these IG, Phyllis Fong at the US Ministry of Agriculture, decided not to leave, believing that the order was illegal. According to a ReutersIt was accompanied by the building today for sure.

Fong is a 22-year-old veteran of the Inspectorate’s General Office with the USDA. And although this very decade career is probably partly why the Trump administration attracts her (something swamp, something that a career bureaucrat, etc.), she probably also carried among the most institutional knowledge of IG operations in the federal Government. In 2008, She was baptized The first chairman of the Council of the General Council on Honesty and Efficiency (CIGIE) and sat down at the Council for Recovery and Transparency Reporting, which leads the federal costs related to disaster relief. Of her USDA website biographyShe was also the recipient of “numerous awards in recognition of her guidance for improving healthy financial management practices and policies in the federal government.”

It seems like the person you would like around if your whole thing eliminates the wasteful costs and inefficient operations. Of course, there may be some other reason that you would like to fire a person who is an expert in your stated goals. Maybe, for example, she was Neuralink InvestigationA company managed by Elon Musk, which seeks to implant chips in the brains of people. Then you might fire her as retribution – hypothetically speaking, ie.

Regardless of why Fong and some of her colleagues were fired, her position that the wasps were illegal seems to be weight. Cigie responded to the dismissal, saying they seemed to violate the federal law, such as chairman Hannibal Ware writing In a letter to the White House “At this point, we do not believe that the actions taken are legally sufficient to reject the presidential appointed, Senate confirmed the General Inspectors.” Senator Adam Schiff has too explicitly called dismissal illegalS Even the Republican Senator Chuck Grassley released a statement Calling the Trump Administration to explain the dismissals and why there is no 30-day notice, as required under the law.

Will one of them actually do something about it? Until now, the Democrats have been crazy in the face of Trump’s shock and fearsome campaign. When Trump’s Medicaid portals become inaccessible throughout the country, DEM leadership announced the confusion of Trump’s executive order. urgent meeting… for the next day.

They may try to try to restore the USDA General Inspector next week if they have time. Is not like the agency at the moment Monitoring of an epidemic of bird flu at the moment or something else. No hurry!