January 25, 2025
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) – founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force – issued the following statement on Trump’s late-night firing of inspectors general from various federal agencies and purge of federal employees responsible for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. These plans were included in Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda.
said Ranking Member Huffman.
“Those of us who still believe in democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law, must call out and oppose what Trump is doing here. My Democratic colleagues and I will not stand idly by and watch democracy crumble. We will shine a light on Trump’s egregious abuses of power and draw this corruption out of the shadows for everyone in America to see.”
Last Friday night, the White House fired the independent inspectors general of at least 14 major federal agencies. Oversight of some of the government’s largest agencies was affected: the departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Energy, Commerce and Agriculture, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration and the Social Security Administration.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management also directed agency heads to "take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions within sixty days.”
The 922-page Project 2025 policy agenda lists in-depth plans to weaken anti-corruption laws, replace qualified experts with political cronies, and eliminate efforts to defend environmental justice and diverse communities. In one of its corresponding “Presidential Administration Academy” video trainings, two Project 2025 leaders say that, upon election, the next U.S. president should replace the independent Inspectors General (IGs) working to oversee federal operations and detect and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and misconduct throughout 74 federal programs. The Project 2025 leaders said the next president should instead install “their own IGs” so that they “have control of the people that work within the government.”
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