On October 1, 2025, the US government shut down for the 11th time since 1980 and has become the longest government shutdown in US history. Despite the ongoing media stories and funding negotiations, the impact of the shutdown on government accountability has gone largely unnoticed.
A district court judge torpedoed the Trump administration’s argument for firing federal workers during the government shutdown, throwing up new legal barriers that may prove difficult for the president’s attorneys to overcome.
Government Accountability Project is proud to announce that whistleblower client Scott Smith and his research team will present their latest findings on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 2025 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete.
Today, after Paul Ingrassia withdrawing his nomination to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), six leading groups in the nonpartisan Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) sent a letter to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) urging aggressive oversight to restore credible whistleblower protection rights and prevent a spoils system.
The undersigned organizations in the nonpartisan Make it Safe Coalition write to express appreciation for the Committee’s leadership defending the merit system in the withdrawn nomination of Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
Yesterday, the venerable news program 60 Minutes featured the first interview with DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni. The former career attorney at the Department of Justice spoke out about the behavior of then-senior DOJ official Emil Bove. Bove was adamant the administration’s plan to disappear people — include Kilmar Abrego Garcia — to an El Salvadorian prison must continue, regardless of what any court might say about the matter.
Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ.
Charles Borges, then chief data officer for the vast Social Security Administration, was alarmed last summer when he learned that members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had copied a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans, including names, birthdays, addresses and more.
Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice.
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