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  Support our nonprofit journalism   March 26, 2025 Fraud, waste, and abuse: Those are the things that inspectors general across the federal government are tasked with investigating. These watchdogs have been a key layer of oversight for decades, so it was alarming that one of the first moves President Donald Trump made in January was to  fire at least 17 of them . That’s why I wanted to  sit down with Larry Turner, one of those fired watchdogs . Larry was inspector general for the US Department of Labor and had been an IG at the Department of Defense and the Army before that. Larry says the mass firing of IGs like himself was about power and politics more than anything. He finds it impossible to believe that  DOGE , which Trump has tasked with finding fraud and waste, is uncovering these issues within days when, in actuality, it took his office up to a year to properly investigate similar claims. I talk with Larry about all this and more  on this week’s episode...