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The White House’s move to strip an inspector general from oversight of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief law kept drawing fire, because it looked less like a management decision than a preemptive anti-accountability maneuver. The administration had already yanked other watchdogs, and the pattern was hard to miss: punish the people who might ask where the money went.
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The White House’s move to strip an inspector general from oversight of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief law kept drawing fire, because it looked less like a management decision than a preemptive anti-accountability maneuver. The administration had already yanked other watchdogs, and the pattern was hard to miss: punish the people who might ask where the money went.
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The White House’s move to strip an inspector general from oversight of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief law kept drawing fire, because it looked less like a management decision than a preemptive anti-accountability maneuver. The administration had already yanked other watchdogs, and the pattern was hard to miss: punish the people who might ask where the money went.
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