As President Donald Trump's administration initiates mass government worker layoffs in the name of "efficiency," many inspectors general fired recently by the president are speaking out to reveal just how much money they personally saved taxpayers.
In interviews with the New York Times, several fired inspectors general discussed their past work reining in government waste and fraud.
"Since I became the IG, $75 billion is what we saved the taxpayer," said former Department of Labor Inspector General Larry Turner.
Drilling down into specifics, Turner told the Times that "we identified $47 billion in potential fraud on the unemployment insurance program."
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"Well over $10 billion," said former Defense Department IG Robert Storch.
"$14.5 billion at least," said former Health and Human Services IG Christi Grimm.
"In my almost nine years, we put out 2,500 reports," revealed Michael Missal, the former IG for the Department of Veterans Affairs. "10,000 recommendations on how the VA can improve."
Missal also said that he wasn't afraid to upset political appointees of either party during his tenure.
"I served under eight different secretaries, I believe almost every one of them yelled at me about something," he said.