Tom Cotton
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Leaders CRASH AND BURN on Weekend Shows
Well, Shannon, time and time again, the Supreme Court has said that Congress can't impose restrictions on the president's power to remove officers. In President Trump's first term, he removed the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Despite limitations on the president's constitutional power to remove officers, that was litigated at the Supreme Court, and the president won.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Leaders CRASH AND BURN on Weekend Shows
So ultimately, these inspectors general serve at the pleasure of the president. He wants new people in there. He wants people focused on getting out waste and fraud and abuse and reforming these agencies. He has a right to get in there who he wants.