{"id":41981,"date":"2025-02-17T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41981"},"modified":"2025-02-17T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:39:24","slug":"how-long-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/17\/how-long-before\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Before &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general-report-critical-funding-freeze-rcna191815?icid=nextpost_bot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage<\/a> of the firing of Inspectors General (IG) by President Trump and the reaction of Senators Grassley (R-IA) and Durbin (D-IL), both IG supporters, is convenient:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWe write to you today concerning the reported firing of Inspectors General (IGs) from 18 offices,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_durbin_to_djt_-_ig_removals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the senators\u2019 correspondence began<\/a>. \u201cCongress was not provided the legally required 30-day notice and case-specific reasons for removal, as required by law. Accordingly, we request that you provide that information immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">I spoke directly to Grassley\u2019s office \u2014 just hours before the public learned about the White House firing the USAID inspector general \u2014 and the senator\u2019s office confirmed that the president and his team have not responded to the senators\u2019 request for \u201cimmediate\u201d information.<em> [<strong>Maddowblog<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My question is this: when will President Trump try to fire Grassley and Durbin, and will the Republicans understand the magnitude of their error in supporting President Trump even then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen&#8217;s coverage of the firing of Inspectors General (IG) by President Trump and the reaction of Senators Grassley (R-IA) and Durbin (D-IL), both IG supporters, is convenient: \u201cWe write to you today concerning the reported firing of Inspectors General (IGs) from 18 offices,\u201d\u00a0the senators\u2019 correspondence began. \u201cCongress was not \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/17\/how-long-before\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41982,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions\/41982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}