USDA Inspector General Escorted from the Office of Security After Threating Trump’s Order

Security agents had to escort the inspector of the US Ministry of Agriculture out of her office Monday after she refused to comply with her firing of the Trump administration.

Phyllis Fong, who has been with the department for 22 years, had told her colleagues that she intended to stay after President Trump fired 17 Inspector Generals in various government agencies on Friday, According to Reuters, which broke the story.

Fong told her colleagues she didn’t think Trump had followed the right protocols to shoot her.

In an e -mail she sent on Saturday, she said that the independent advice of the inspectors’ general of integrity and efficiency has taken the opinion that these termination messages do not comply with the requirements stated in the law and therefore are not effective this time. “

Officials of the White House who defend the layoffs and say that “these junk, Partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved by their duties to make room for qualified persons who want to maintain the rule of law and protect democracy.”

The USDA Inspector General deals with food security, audits and investigation of the agricultural department and violations of animal welfare legislation. The USDA has been one of the most important agencies dealing with the outbreak of bird flu, which has spread to cattle and poultry. A person in Louisiana has died of the disease.

In 2022, the office opened a survey of Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralinkover allegations of animal welfare violations. Fong also conducted a study of the Agency following the Listeria outbreak at Boar’s Head.