{"id":14553,"date":"2025-03-21T18:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democratic-senators-ask-watchdogs-to-investigate-musks-downsizing-efforts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:24:22","slug":"democratic-senators-ask-watchdogs-to-investigate-musks-downsizing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democratic-senators-ask-watchdogs-to-investigate-musks-downsizing-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senators Ask Watchdogs to Investigate Musk\u2019s Downsizing Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Top Senate Democrats on Friday asked the internal watchdogs of more than a dozen government agencies to investigate job cuts carried out at the direction of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The request was made in a letter signed by 15 Democratic senators and one independent who serve on government oversight committees. The senators asked the watchdogs, known as inspectors general, to look at future job cuts as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Government human resources officials are currently contending with court orders to reinstate about 20,000 probationary employees who were fired in February. A pair of federal judges ruled this month that those firings were illegal, done at the direction of the Office of Personnel Management and members of Mr. Musk\u2019s operation \u2014 neither of which have the authority to order personnel changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition, agencies are making plans for another round of massive cuts in order to shrink the size of government, per the instructions of President Trump and Mr. Musk, who is serving as a top adviser in the government-gutting effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senators asked that the agency watchdogs review not just the probationary firings but all of the personnel actions of the Trump White House, including placing 75,000 employees on administrative leave and offering buyouts. Mr. Trump also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-inspectors-general-fired.html\" title=\"\">fired 17 agency<\/a> inspectors general just days into his second term in office. Now most of these offices are led by a deputy, assistant or acting inspector general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the watchdogs the senators wrote to include those at the departments of Justice, Education and Treasury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition, the senators want the inspectors general to \u201cevaluate whether such actions violate agency policies or procedures, and whether these decisions could \u2014 contrary to the administration\u2019s stated aim \u2014 create additional waste and inefficiency or allow fraud or misconduct in impacted federal programs to go unchecked,\u201d Senators Gary Peters of Michigan, Ron Wyden of Oregon and others wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Peters is the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Mr. Wyden is the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script 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