Last time they came up with a person to oversee the the whole money program in involving TRILLONS of dollars as the law says they should?
Trump demoted their guy out of the position ….
Now the Federal Inspector General’s are naming their own to oversee the Federal governments virus relief efforts…
There are already reports of billions going to companies that shouldn’t be getting any money…And there are already reports of people getting checks that shouldn’t be…
Hold on…
We’ll se if Trump moves again to chancel any independent oversight and put one of ‘HIS’ people in charge of this also…
A council of inspectors general that went dark after President Donald Trump removed the top coronavirus relief watchdog earlier this month resurfaced Monday, naming a top staffer to oversee the government’s pandemic response and launching a website that will catalog their efforts.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a panel of two dozen federal inspectors general charged with coordinating work to investigate the coronavirus relief effort, named Robert Westbrooks, a veteran inspector general as the committee’s executive director on Monday. Westbrooks, a certified public accountant, attorney and inspector general of a massive federal retirement benefit program, has held senior watchdog positions at the Small Business Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Postal Service and the National Archives.
“I look forward to working with the entire oversight community – federal, state, and local – to coordinate and conduct independent oversight over these critically important emergency relief programs, and help ensure that funds are used effectively and efficiently and major program risks are addressed,” Westbrooks said in a statement.
Under the $2 trillion CARES Act, passed last month to begin stanching the economic hemorrhaging caused by the pandemic and provide relief to struggling businesses, lawmakers also established the panel of inspectors general as a broad and powerful overseer of the massive rescue effort. The law empowered an existing committee of inspectors general, chaired by Justice Department Watchdog Michael Horowitz, to select the chairman of the new pandemic panel and determine which of his colleagues would also sit on the new committee. Horowitz selected nearly two dozen inspectors general to sit on the committee and named Pentagon acting inspector general Glenn Fine to lead it.
But Trump threw the panel into turmoil earlier this month when he demoted Fine, making him ineligible to lead the coronavirus oversight effort. Horowitz has yet to name a successor for Fine and he’s recently sparred with Trump for other incursions on the inspector general community, as Trump has made moves against officials empowered to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response….