1. Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson: President Trump wrote to Congress on April 3 he no longer had confidence in Atkinson, who helped facilitate the whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment. Republicans had criticized changes in the whistleblower policies by Atkinson that permitted secondhand information to be used to launch an investigation.

2. Department of Defense acting Inspector General Glenn Fine, who was to chair the panel overseeing coronavirus federal spending: No official explanation provided by Trump for the April 7 firing. Trump said, “I don’t think I ever met Fine,” and suggested he was cleaning out Obama-era holdovers, citing “reports of bias.”