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NEWS: President Trump has upended the federal panel overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus law -- removing the Pentagon inspector general who was supposed to oversee it and naming a new acting replacement.
Story w @connorobrienNH coming.
The news began circulating on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning. Glenn Fine, who was acting Pentagon IG, had been named by his colleagues to oversee the coronavirus panel. But Trump named the EPA inspector general to take Fine's position, negating Fine's appointment.
It will fall to other inspectors general, particularl DOJ watchdog Michael Horowitz, to name a new coronavirus law watchdog. The law charges the panel of IGs Horowitz leads with picking the head of the new coronavirus panel.
NEW: Trump's unexpected replacement of the Pentagon's acting IG is his latets incursion on the community of independent federal watchdogs.
He removed the intel IG Friday night and has been attacking the HHS IG since yesterday. w/ @connorobrienNHhttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 …
FINE will revert to his position as principal deputy IG of DOD, according to the Pentagon. But he's ineligible to lead the coronavirus effort because it requires a current IG.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 …
UPDATE: One consequence of Trump's move on the DOD IG: EPA oversight could suffer. Trump is asking the EPA IG to oversee both departments -- and DOD is massive. "How anyone could do both jobs escapes me," former EPA official Stan Meiburg tells us.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 …
PELOSI says the removal of Glenn Fine is part of a "disturbing pattern" of Trump's efforts to undermine neutral overseers. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943 …pic.twitter.com/dfTQN9veEo
We are becoming Hungary.
We are becoming Russia.
Is the new acting replacement called David Dennison?
John Barron.
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