Among the long list of congressional fixes in the wake of the Trump presidency, rewriting the rules for inspector generals must be at the top of the list once Trump and his legions are defrocked. The role of inspector generals (IGs) is to combat waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. They do that by conducting audits and investigations in more than 70 federal agencies. The Inspector General Act of 1978 and its amendments of 1988 established the IGs as permanent, nonpartisan and independent offic … (read more)
