Déclaration de la présidente de Common Cause, Karen Hobert Flynn

Nous méritons un gouvernement responsable et transparent envers le peuple, mais le président Trump agit une fois de plus comme s’il était au-dessus des lois. La décision de Trump de démettre Glenn Fine, le chef d’un groupe indépendant d’inspecteurs généraux chargé de superviser le plan de relance de l’aide au coronavirus, est une prise de pouvoir corrompue. Sans une surveillance rigoureuse, le public n’aura pas la certitude que l’argent qu’il a durement gagné sert réellement le bien public au détriment d’intérêts particuliers. 

It should be noted that Fine served honorably in the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations before serving President Trump and had been appointed a week ago by an independent council of inspectors general to lead the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.

This move comes just days after President Trump installed Brian Miller, a Trump loyalist, as the inspector general overseeing the Treasury Department’s implementation of the $2 trillion CARES stimulus package. President Trump has also announced he plans to ignore the oversight provisions in the CARES Act.

The president is not above the law and we will not stand by while President Trump tries to use a pandemic to distract the American people from the corruption in his administration and his attempts to avoid transparency. Congress must immediately use its oversight powers and hold the president accountable to the American people. Without vigilant oversight of the CARES Act, we cannot ensure that public funds actually serve the public. Today’s actions by President Trump are the latest in a disturbing pattern of attacks on inspectors general and whistleblowers that serve as internal checks and balances on unethical behavior.

To view Common Cause’s previous statement on the Trump administration’s resistance to the CARES Act oversight and transparency provisions, Cliquez ici.