Trump Wants Author Of Project 2025 Playbook To Be One Of His Government Watchdogs

President Donald Trump has reportedly nominated an writer of Project 2025 to service arsenic a watchdog for nan Interior Department.

Dennis Kirk, a erstwhile charismatic successful nan White House Office of Personnel Management and 1 of nan authors of nan far-right Project 2025 archive to service arsenic nan Interior Department's inspector general, according to The Hill.

Kirk antecedently served arsenic a watchdog wrong nan intelligence organization past year, according to The Washington Post.

House Natural Resources ranking personnel Congressman Jared Huffman criticized nan appointment, calling him "fraudulent."

"Dennis Kirk is simply a clone and fraudulent watchdog," Huffman said successful a statement. "Everyone should person their eyes wide open. Each and each point this governmental puppet does will beryllium successful nan work of Donald [Trump]."

He continued, criticizing Kirk's domiciled successful nan Project 2025 document.

"This man helped constitute nan Project 2025 playbook for seizing power of nan national workforce," he said. "Now he sits wrong nan agency charged pinch rooting retired corruption astatine Interior, nan section that manages our nationalist parks, nationalist lands, Tribal programs, and now, nether Trump, gold-slathered statues and a botched Reflecting Pool renovation.”

The Interior Department has been astatine likelihood pinch nan Trump management complete nan president's various Washington, D.C. projects for illustration his ballroom astatine nan White House and his determination to drain and adjacent nan Reflecting Pool adjacent nan Lincoln Memorial.

The second has go an particularly earthy constituent of contention wrong nan national government, arsenic reports person shown that nan contractors utilized to activity connected nan excavation were hired done an different no-bid process.

The existent caput of nan Interior Department Inspector General's agency is Caryl Brzymialkiewicz, who replaced Mark Greenblatt successful January 2025 aft he was fired erstwhile Trump returned to office.

He posted a connection to his website this week informing that Kirk's placement should "concern anyone who values independent authorities oversight."

“Placing personification pinch that inheritance wrong an inspector general’s agency raises superior questions astir nan independency of 1 of nan national government’s astir important accountability institutions,” Greenblatt said.

The Independent has requested remark from nan White House.