"The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
President Donald Trump's Friday night dismissal of the State Department inspector general provoked objections from some Republican lawmakers who said the president did not present sufficient grounds for the move.
"Inspectors general are crucial in correcting government failures and promoting the accountability that the American people deserve," he said. Collins pointed to her role in drafting the 2008 Inspector General Reform Act, which requires the president to submit a written explanation for an inspector general's removal 30 days before it takes effect.
"President Trump’s unprecedented removal of Inspector General Linick is only his latest sacking of an inspector general, our government’s key independent watchdogs, from a federal agency. We unalterably oppose the politically-motivated firing of inspectors general and the President’s gutting of these critical positions," wrote Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sen.
Pelosi said in a statement on Friday that the firing was part of a"dangerous pattern of retaliation against the patriotic public servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the American people." "I'm not crying big crocodile tears over this termination. Let's put it that way," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
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