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(CNN) - President Donald Trump has removed acting Department of Defense Inspector General Glenn Fine from office, a decision that means Fine will no longer chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing $ 2 trillion in funding from emergency coronavirus.
At the end of last month, a group of independent federal supervisors appointed Fine, a career official, to lead the group tasked with preventing "waste, fraud and abuse" in the use of the coronavirus relief money.
It is Trump's latest effort to undermine federal oversight.
Late Friday night, the president fired the intelligence inspector general who reported a whistleblower's complaint to Congress, triggering the impeachment investigation. On Monday, Trump repeatedly questioned the motives behind an in-depth investigation by the Inspector General of Health and Human Services into the shortage of supplies affecting the response to the coronavirus.
A Defense Department spokeswoman did not explain why Fine was removed from the position of interim inspector general, but did explain that this meant that he was no longer eligible to remain on the accountability committee, which is limited to general and general inspectors. of interim inspectors.
"The Department of Defense inspector general's office remains part of the Pandemic Response Responsibility Committee," spokeswoman Dwrena K. Allen told CNN. "Mr. Fine is no longer serving as president because he is no longer serving as the acting inspector general."
“Glenn Fine returns to his position as Principal Deputy Inspector General. Stay focused and committed to the important mission of the Department of Defense Inspector General's office, ”added Allen.
