Industry Fights Safe Staffing Rule

Trump fired a dozen inspectors general who monitored departments for waste, fraud, and abuse, ignoring the law that requires him to give Congress 30 days’ notice and provide good cause for the terminations and specific reasons. Most were Trump’s own appointees from his first term, put in when he purged the inspectors general more gradually after his first impeachment.

Trump’s Health and Human Services placed an unprecedented “immediate pause” on all health reports, leading scientists to cancel CDC meetings on the escalating and dangerous bird flu outbreak.