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Trump Ousts Watchdog for Coronavirus Rescue Spending

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   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump has removed the independent
   watchdog overseeing the management of the country's $2 trillion
   coronavirus rescue package, the second inspector general he has ousted
   in recent days.

   Trump pushed out Glenn Fine, the acting inspector general at the
   Pentagon for the past four years, from the coronavirus spending
   oversight role on Monday, a position that Fine's peers among government
   inspectors general had selected him for.

   Fine was told Monday he was being replaced by Sean O'Donnell, currently
   the acting inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency, to
   also be the acting Defense Department watchdog.

   With Fine removed from the top Pentagon inspector general posting, he
   was no longer eligible to head the oversight of the coronavirus
   spending, hundreds of billions of dollars being sent to U.S.
   corporations whose economic fortunes have been severely impacted by the
   virus. Fine remains inthe principal deputy inspector general position
   at the Pentagon.

   The Democratic chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee,
   Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, called Fine's removal "a
   direct insult to the American taxpayers --of all political stripes
   --who want to make sure their tax dollars are not squandered on
   wasteful boondoggles, incompetenceor political favors."

   She added, "President Trump has been engaged in an assault against
   independent inspectors general since last Friday in order to undermine
   oversight of his chaotic and deficient response to the coronavirus
   crisis."
   

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