The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded on Wednesday to reports claiming the agency’s former inspector general was ...

What better time for the USDA to be without an inspector general—or, worse, some MAGA hack pretending to be one—what with bird flu decimating cattle and poultry, and leaping between species to 67 ...

And what the seemingly illegal mass firings could mean for the future of independent agencies in the federal government.

In a dramatic turn of events, Phyllis Fong, the USDA Inspector General, was escorted out of her office for refusing to comply with her dismissal by the Trump administration. This incident raises ...

An inspector general was reportedly escorted out of her office after she failed to comply with mass firings initiated by ...

The White House removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency including the Agriculture ...

The former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was reportedly escorted out of her office Monday after she "refused to comply" with her termination – though the USDA denies ...

New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang told Newsweek that "there should be public outrage" at the dismissal of federal IGs.

Security officials escorted USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong from her office today after she defied a White House firing to go to work, Reuters reported.Fong said she didn’t believe the ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of Stephen Vaden as deputy secretary of USDA for his upcoming administration. Vaden, who served as general counsel for USDA during Trump’s ...

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The inspectors general reportedly removed included those for the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense and Education. Michael Horowitz, the longtime Justice Department inspector general ...