An experienced inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture had to be guided her office after refusing to accept President Donald Trump's decision to dismiss her.
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year-old veteran of the department, said colleagues that she was planning to stay on, despite an edict of Trump who demanded her contract.
In an e -mail seen to colleagues on Saturday by Reuters, she said she did not believe that the administration had followed the right protocols when terminating her contract.
She insisted that the Independent Council of the Inspectors General had taken the same position on integrity and efficiency.
“These termination messages do not meet the requirements set out in law and are therefore not effective at the moment,” she said.
As a result, Fong was accompanied from the building on its last working day, Reuters reported.
The White House did not publicly announce the massacre or gave any explanation why it has dismissed the officials, who have the task of evaluating federal departments on issues such as the law and the use of tax money.
The movement led to the concern of the Republican and Democratic legislators that the president may have violated a federal law that should receive the congress of a 30-day notification of such dismissals, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year-old veteran of the department, told colleagues that she intended to stay on, despite an edict of Trump who demanded her contract to end
Inspector Generals (IGs) for the Departments of Defense, State, Transport, Veteran Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior and Energy were all released.
The White House defended her termination and the other inspectors -general and said: “These rogue, partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved of their duties to make room for qualified people who will maintain the rule of law and protect democracy.”
In her role she has had a wide mandate to pursue food safety of consumers, to conduct audits and investigations.
The USDA is the core of concern about bird flu, which has spread under cattle and chickens and killed a person in Louisiana.
In 2022, the office of the Inspector General launched an investigation into the Brain implant startup Neuralink by Elon Musk, which is going on, says sources.
A veteran inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture had to be guided her office after he refused to accept President Donald Trump's decision to dismiss her
Musk and Trump developed a close relationship during the presidential campaign and earned the billionaire Tesla founder a role that the Ministry of Government has undergone efficiency.
On Wednesday, Musk Insinuated, he played an important role in Trump's plan to purify the federal workforce.
Fong was one of the 17 controversial federal employees who were fired by Trump on Friday in what critics described as a late nightwashing.
Trump then spoke with reporters on board Air Force One and defended the movement and said, “It's very common to do.” He did not say who would be installed in the empty posts.
