President Donald Trump fired Steve Linick late Friday night, the State Department’s inspector general.  

Linick is the fourth IG terminated since April 3. It looks like a shocking and desperate attempt to cancel the oversight duties built into the federal government to protect it and to prevent the American people from overreaching and wrongdoing.

Let’s look at how the congressional Republicans react to this through tweets. 

“The firings of several Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without valid cause chills the independence necessary to their purpose,” tweeted Utah Sen. Mitt Romney. “It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”

Sen. Susan Collins, from Maine who co-authored a 2008 law targetted at making it more difficult for presidents to fire inspectors general, on Saturday tweeted: “The President has not given the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law.”

People are waiting to see what Romney, Collins, or any other Republican senator would do to make clear that Trump riding roughshod over the oversight process is not right?

No formal rebuke or any attempt to further extend protection for inspectors general has been made.

This unchecked misuse of government power is the problem. If you take a private poll of the Republican Senators, the vast majority will opine that Trump’s firing of four inspectors general in six weeks is unacceptable. And many more would even like to do something about it.