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What America is losing as President Trump fires independent government watchdogs

  • President Trump has fired at least 20 independent government watchdog leaders, an action not seen in 44 years, which concerns Hampton Dellinger about the loss of oversight accountability.
  • Hampton Dellinger described the message that this sends: "I don't think we have watchdog agencies anymore".
  • The Trump administration's actions have raised concerns about losing critical oversight and environmental data, with reports indicating a decline in access to information on climate and environmental issues.
  • Experts warn that cuts to foreign aid may lead to increased global instability and unnecessary deaths, underscoring the consequences of dismantling watchdog agencies.
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What America is losing as President Trump fires independent government watchdogs

President Trump has fired heads of offices and agencies tasked, since Watergate, with protecting federal workers and whistleblowers. Scott Pelley reports on what's happening to independent watchdogs.

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‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump

As the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, Rachel Santarsiero is in the business of monitoring and facilitating the flow of information from the government to the public. What she’s seeing now, in the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second administration, is throwing the continuity of that process into doubt. “We’re really losing our history here; we’re losing our environmental history,” Santa…

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