Washington — A group of eight former internal government watchdogs who were fired by President Trump filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging their terminations.
The legal challenge, brought in federal district court in Washington, D.C, argues that their firings violate federal laws that were enacted to protect inspectors general from interference with their duties. One of those laws, passed in 2022, requires a president to give Congress 30 days notice about the planned removal of an inspector general.
The former inspectors general involved in the lawsuit worked at the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, State, Education, Agriculture and Labor, as well as the Small Business Administration.
Mr. Trump fired the internal government watchdogs just days into his second term, and they were notified through a two-line email from the Office of Presidential Personnel.
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