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A council of inspectors common that went darkish after President Donald Trump eliminated the highest coronavirus reduction watchdog earlier this month resurfaced Monday, naming a high staffer to supervise the federal government’s pandemic response and launching a web site that can catalog the IGs’ efforts.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a panel of two dozen federal inspectors common charged with coordinating work to analyze the coronavirus reduction effort, named Robert Westbrooks, a veteran inspector common, as its government director on Monday. Westbrooks, a licensed public accountant and an legal professional, and the inspector common of a large federal retirement profit program, has held senior watchdog positions on the Small Enterprise Administration, Division of Transportation, U.S. Postal Service and Nationwide Archives.
“I stay up for working with your complete oversight group — federal, state, and native — to coordinate and conduct impartial oversight over these critically essential emergency reduction packages, and assist be certain that funds are used successfully and effectively and main program dangers are addressed,” Westbrooks mentioned in a press release.