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Trump’s federal watchdogs are doing the job past IGs let slide — and the old guard hates it

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A former federal inspector general has been sniping at President Donald Trump’s approach to rooting out government fraud — but his complaints sound less like a serious defense of oversight and more like a bitter kiss-off from a spurned ex-bureaucrat.

“The watchdogs have crossed a dangerous line,” Mark Greenblatt intoned in the Daily Beast. “They’ve become lapdogs” — “MAGA lapdogs,” as his headline put it.

He’s furious that my inspector general colleagues and I are joining the wide-ranging effort, led by Vice President JD Vance, to crack down on the fraud that’s looting our national treasury.

Greenblatt’s argument rests on a flawed premise: He claims that supporting such a mission somehow prevents an inspector general from conducting independent oversight.

The Inspector General Act, which established the job I hold at the Labor Department, does not require blindness to policy priorities.

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It requires independence in conducting audits, investigations and oversight.

There’s a significant difference between supporting efforts to protect taxpayer dollars........

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