Former Interior Department Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt calls on the Senate to reject President Trump’s nomination of Dennis Kirk, warning that Kirk’s background as a partisan operative and close ties to the administration would undermine the independence and credibility of the Interior Department’s watchdog. Greenblatt argues that the American people deserve an Inspector General whose independence is beyond question.

Former Interior Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt warns that the reported placement of a key architect of Project 2025 inside the Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General threatens the structural independence of government watchdogs and further erodes public confidence in federal oversight.