So Trump thinks he doesn’t need an independent watchdog overseeing the expenditure of $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding.

I do not trust this sumbitch with lunch money and he wants to oversee $2 trillion. I can damn well promise you that $1.999 trillion will end up in Jared’s bank account. Or Rudy Giuliani will eat it.

Fine’s removal marks Trump’s latest attack on the world of independent federal oversight.

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Since Friday, Trump has fired the Intelligence Community inspector general who informed Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment and attacked the Health and Human Services inspector general who found vast concerns at hospitals over supply shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Democratic chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, called Fine’s removal “a direct insult to the American taxpayers — of all political stripes — who want to make sure their tax dollars are not squandered on wasteful boondoggles, incompetence, or political favors.”