Updated, 6:45 p.m.At least 15 government oversight websites were down — and with them, access to watchdog reports and required hotline and whistleblower links — as of Wednesday evening. It also runs Oversight.gov, which houses over 34,000 reports from most of the 70-plus OIGs, and operates 28 OIG websites that house legally required hotlines for whistleblowers to report suspected cases of government waste, fraud and abuse. Asked about the decision, an OMB spokesperson told Nextgov/FCW in a statement that “inspectors general are meant to be impartial watchdogs identifying waste and corruption on behalf of the American people. The Trump administration has said that a top priority is fighting fraud, waste, and abuse—the very purview of inspectors general. “None of this makes any sense,” Jenny Rone, former deputy inspector general for the Department of Agriculture until early this year, told Nextgov/FCW.