The Trump administration has reversed its decision to shutter eight California outposts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

New data from Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) shows the IGs played a key role in investigations and audits that uncovered ...

Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her role, a spokesperson for the USDA has said. The USDA inspector general ...

(USDA photo courtesy of Bailing Out Benji) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general says the agency has failed to inspect dog breeders in a timely fashion and failed to ensure that ...

USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong ordered the mass extermination of healthy poultry in 2024, citing "mutating bird flu," in order to artificially inflate poultry and egg prices in the U.S. Rating: ...

An inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture—one of 17 inspectors general summarily fired by President Donald Trump on Jan. 25—was led out of her office on Jan. 27 by police ...

Inspectors general named in the lawsuit include those from the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education. Court documents filed in Washington ...

“In this action, the duly appointed Inspectors General of eight major U.S. agencies — the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, State, Agriculture ...

Fong of Agriculture, Larry D. Turner of Labor and Hannibal Ware of the Small Business Administration. Four days after returning to office, Trump fired 17 independent inspectors general at ...

The eight inspectors general who brought the lawsuit, from the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, State, Agriculture, Education and Labor, as well as the Small ...

To fire IGs, in other words, is to open the door to abuses. (The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Agriculture was, among other things, investigating an Elon Musk startup. When she ...