Watchdog insiders sound alarm as Trump eyes top aide to run agency: ‘Worse than ever’

>Staffers inside Congress’ most powerful watchdog are sounding the alarm as President Donald Trump weighs who should run their agency.

>Trump is considering nominating Eric Ueland, the top deputy to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, to lead the Government Accountability Office as comptroller general, a post that carries a 15-year term, the Washington Sun reported Thursday, citing four people familiar with the discussions.

>The pick would put an architect of the Trump administration’s spending and workforce moves in charge of the agency that has repeatedly ruled some of those moves illegal. As OMB’s number two, Ueland has overseen sweeping changes to the federal workforce, and he also serves as acting head of the Office of Government Ethics and largely dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development.