Summary

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticized Donald Trump for illegally firing inspectors general without giving Congress 30 days’ notice.

Trump recently dismissed the USAID inspector general after a report exposed the administration’s mismanagement of foreign aid, putting $489 million in food assistance at risk.

Grassley, a longtime watchdog advocate, said Trump could still remove officials legally by placing them on administrative leave.

  • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    You need enough Republicans speaking up that they can impeach Trump. Dems are being quiet to let Republicans lead on this, they are the only ones who could possibly do it. Democrats leading will only make Republicans defend him.

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      5 hours ago

      I don’t mean to be rude, but are you from Candyland? You need 20 Republicans in the Senate to convict him and remove him from office. He tried to kill them and they still didn’t convict him.

      It won’t happen.

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      11 hours ago

      Yea you’ve got a good point actually. I would say the GOP are got damn toddlers, but that would be an insult to toddlers everywhere and you don’t want to end up on the toddler cartel shit list.

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      11 hours ago

      That’s why personally I am not sitting here being outraged and Facebooking the outrage. It ain’t gonna do anything.