Fired by Trump, former HHS inspector-General sees threat to independence

Christi Grimm drove on January 25 to an earthenware class with her young daughter when she received a phone call from a colleague, who told Grimm that she would probably have to stop. The news: President Trump had fired her.

Grimm was the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services and became part of Trump’s purification of federal watchdogs. Word of the shooting quickly spread over the country – starting in the earthenware class. Her daughter immediately said to her classmates: “President Trump just fired my mother,” Grimm recalled.

Since then, Grimm and seven other inspector have general -general Trump sued And his cabinet officials, who claim that the ends were illegal. She not only regards her shooting as a violation of the law, but as a litmus test of whether the executive power chooses partisely loyalists or independent guardians to eradicate fraud, waste and abuse that exists within Medicare, Medicid and other health care programs. Trump has shown that he prefers the first: his nominee to replace Grimm is Thomas March Bell, a Republican lawyer who has investigated Planned Parenthood.