Federal Whistleblowers NOT Protected in Stimulus Bill
Despite a strong push from whistleblower advocates, the final stimulus bill appears not to include protections for federal employees who call attention to
Jul 31, 202036.8K Shares1.6M Views
Despite a strong push from whistleblower advocates, the final stimulus bill appears not to include protections for federal employees who call attention to waste, fraud and abuse of stimulus money. It’s an odd outcome, given that federal employees are often the first people to notice fraud and other abuses by government contractors, as exhibited in many of the House oversight hearings on the subject over the past few years. (Remember Bunnatine Greenhouse, who lost her job after blowing the whistle on the no-bid contracts for Halliburton?)
As the Project on Government Oversight put it in a statement this afternoon: “
(D-Mo.) amendmentadding protections for government contractor employees were included in the final language.
The sticking point on the federal workers may be, as I explained before, the strong opposition from Republicansto providing whistleblower protection to intelligence employees.