MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Trump Drowning Fiscal Watchdogs in His Swamp
By NCD on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 9:41am |Every major federal agency and program has an inspector general, a nonpartisan, independent official whose staff investigates cases of wasteful spending, criminal activity, employee misconduct and plain bad management. These are watchdogs with real teeth... The administration...has undermined the inspectors’ role by failing to hire for open positions and planning to slash the offices’ budgets, one of the many ways the White House has found to diminish the oversight functions of the federal government.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/opinion/mr-trump-goes-after-the-inspectors.html
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