President Biden Needs to Fill the Government’s Vacant Inspector-General Positions
It should not take more than two years for the administration to interview, vet, and select appropriate candidates.
The inspector-general position at the State Department has been vacant for more than three years. President Donald Trump removed the previous inspector general, Steve Linick, in May 2020 as part of a series of firings that one article called the “slow-motion Friday night massacre of inspectors general.” Yet, more than two years into a new administration, President Joe Biden still has not nominated anyone for the vacancy. Instead, the vacancy has been filled by a string of acting IGs, which are not the same as a confirmed one.
Other agencies have also lacked a permanent inspector general for . The Department of are also waiting for the president to nominate an inspector general.
