Government Executive: Inspectors general, fresh off of passage of a new law enhancing their powers, “are concerned a lot about the potential impact of [President Trump’s] hiring freeze,” Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz told a House panel on Wednesday.
“OIG offices were hit particularly hard during sequestration and [that] had a significant impact on our work,” Horowitz said, a docket that has grown without an increase in resources primarily due to a rise in whistleblower retaliation cases. “We’re also concerned about the regulatory freeze” as IGs prepare to write new regulations to implement the 2016 Inspector General Empowerment Act, he added.
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