Coming up on the one-year anniversary of his confirmation, Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Brian Miller is reflecting on the challenges and successes his office has experienced in overseeing relief programs for the novel coronavirus and resulting economic recession.
“We've had people challenge our jurisdiction. We've had people trying to slow us down in various ways,” Miller said in an interview with Government Executive. “We've come through that in the last year, I think, in a very successful way, in a very surprising way. In some ways, this office was almost set up to fail and yet we're succeeding and accomplishing the job.”
Miller was nominated for the job in April 2020, after then-President Trump had questioned the need for such a position in the first place, as part of a signing statement accompanying the $2.2 trillion CARES Act. The Senate confirmed him on June 2, 2020 amid some skepticism due to his most recent job as assistant and senior associate counsel in the Office of White House Counsel. Miller has held a number of other high-level positions in government since 1992, such as IG at the General Services Administration, and senior positions at the Justice Department, including assistant U.S. attorney general, senior counsel to the deputy attorney general and special counsel on health care fraud.
Miller’s office released a report on April 30 saying there were “turf battles” with the Treasury IG that led to him asking the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to issue a ruling, ..
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