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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this was all to push Project 2025 further along?[/quote]

Yeah dummy wrote about this on truth social last night....I'm confused though because MAGA was told and believed that P2025 was all made up-dummy said he didn't even know what P2025 was.....hmmm[/quote]

News is reporting Trump is meeting with Vought to go over Project 2025 priorities and to eliminate "Democrat Agencies" - and we got condescending chiding, mocking and gaslighting and told we were hyperbolic when correctly said this would happen.
[/quote]  It was Democrats that gave him the opportunity, as they didn't authorize funding after September.[/quote]

Nope Trump just shut down the ICGIE.
The Trump administration plans to end funding starting Wednesday for an oversight group that helps inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse, marking the latest example of President Donald Trump’s drive to limit federal watchdog activities.

The group — called the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency — is the umbrella organization for 72 inspectors general across government. It informed four House and Senate committees on Saturday that it would “cease our statutorily mandated functions and furlough 25 permanent employees” without funding, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.

The letter said the decision came from the Office of Management and Budget, which has overseen broad staffing cutbacks under Director Russell Vought.

CIGIE acts essentially as a watchdog of the watchdogs — providing training, peer reviews and cross-agency oversight work for inspectors general. It also runs oversight.gov, where whistleblowers can disclose wrongdoing and inspector general reports are shared publicly.

“We have significant concerns about these impacts, as the shuttering of CIGIE will result in the loss of shared services and cost-efficiencies that have been built up over the last 17 years,” Tammy L. Hull, CIGIE’s acting chair and the inspector general for the U.S. Postal Service, wrote in the letter to Congress.

OMB’s decision to cut off funds from the council comes after the Trump administration purged government watchdogs at 19 agencies and then installed partisans to what have traditionally been nonpartisan positions. The dismantling of the group supporting oversight work has sent shock waves through the watchdog community.

It remains unclear how the administration will continue some statutorily required programs without CIGIE.

OMB spokesman Armen Tooloee criticized inspectors general in a statement to The Post.

“Inspectors general are meant to be impartial watchdogs identifying waste and corruption on behalf of the American people,” Tooloee said. “Unfortunately, they have become corrupt, partisan, and in some cases, have lied to the public. The American people will no longer be funding this corruption.”

On Monday, Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Chuck Grassley (Iowa), chairs of the Appropriations and Judiciary committees, respectively, raised concerns about the impact that defunding the inspectors general group would have on oversight. In a letter to Vought, the senators asked for an explanation and called for him “to promptly reverse course.”

MOST IMPORTANTLY:
Congress recently provided funding in its budget bill to extend CIGIE’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which oversaw emergency pandemic spending in several agencies, through 2034. Hull said in the congressional letter that OMB’s decision could stymie that work.

Vecchione said OMB has legal authority to cut off funding because a portion of the funding that CIGIE receives comes from interagency transfers from inspectors general offices, and the law establishing CIGIE gives OMB’s deputy director for management authority over that spending.

They are actively dismantling government functions. [/quote]

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