The Protection Division's inner watchdog will function newly named chair of The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a physique created to supervise the roughly $2 trillion stimulus deal that President Donald Trump signed into legislation final week in response to the financial devastation wrought by the coronavirus outbreak.

Glenn Fantastic, the performing inspector basic of the Division of Protection, was appointed by one other committee of IGs assigned by the brand new legislation to call a chair. 

Fantastic will oversee a board of fellow inspectors basic, all accountable for monitoring their respective departments. They embrace the Departments of Schooling, Well being and Human Companies, Homeland Safety, Justice, Labor, in addition to the Treasury, the Small Enterprise Administration and the Treasury Inspector Common for Tax Administration.

Fantastic's authority shall be expansive. He can subject subpoenas and lead investigations of these in and out of doors the federal government, together with executives...