President Trump's firing of IGs and removal of acting IGs, and then the subsequent appointment of some very political folks as IGs ... does raise the specter of a politicized inspector general community," one of those fired watchdogs, Mark Lee Greenblatt, told Nextgov/FCW.
MPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments were stopped to 23,500 families as part of an anti-fraud crackdown. Meg Hillier, a Labour MP and chair of the House of Commons Treasury select committee, has written to the permanent secretary of HMRC asking who made the decisions, why they were made and whether compensation would be offered to the victims.
The sharp decline in H-1B visa applications indicates that both the Trump administration's policies and heightened enforcement efforts have significantly impacted foreign worker recruitment, according to immigration officials.