Former USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General
The Trump Administration is not playing around with those who choose to defy the 47th President, and one government bureaucrat learned the hard way earlier this week.
As Jim Hoft previously reported, Trump fired 17 Inspectors General in a Friday night purge to punctuate the end of his first week in office.
Trump made an exception, though, for current Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari Jr., who is conducting multiple investigations into the Secret Service failures that led to two assassination attempts on his life.
The White House stated that they removed these partisan hacks to make room for people who will actually “uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”
Trump also defended the decision while speaking with reporters on Saturday, saying, “It’s a very common thing to do.”
Now Reuters revealed today that security agents physically removed the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from her office on Monday after she defied the Trump White House following her firing.
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the USDA, told colleagues that she had no intention of leaving her post after the White House terminated her, claiming Trump had not followed proper procedure.
Reuters reviewed an email by Fong in which she stated the independent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”
Fong refused to comment when contacted by Reuters.
As Inspector General, Fong was responsible for audits, evaluations, investigations, and law enforcement efforts relating to USDA’s programs and operations. But she ultimately failed in this mission.
As The House Committee on Education and Workforce pointed out on their X account, Fong was informed of fraud in the Feeding Our Future program, a $250 million scheme that took funds from hungry children and refused to act.
Despite her failures and complicity in corruption, she felt entitled to her position until finally being escorted out.
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