Romney denounces multiple IG firings as 'threat to accountable democracy'

Source: The Hill | May 16, 2020 | J. Edward Moreno

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) on Saturday denounced President Trump’s firings of several inspector generals in various federal government offices as a “threat to accountable democracy.”

“The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose. It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power,” Romney tweeted.

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The senator’s comments come as Democrats in the upper chamber announced that they launched a probe Saturday into the president’s removal of the State Department’s inspector general Steve Linick, alleging the dismissal was politically motivated.

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