H.R. 9725: Restoring Integrity and Efficiency to Inspector General Oversight Act of 2026

This bill would eliminate the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (often called CIGIE) one year after the bill becomes law. CIGIE is the government-wide body that helps coordinate the work of federal inspectors general, which are the watchdog offices that look for fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, and other problems in federal agencies.

What changes after CIGIE is abolished

• Most of CIGIE’s current functions would be ended.
• Some of those responsibilities would be reassigned to other offices and officials, mainly:
  • the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
  • the Comptroller General / Government Accountability Office (GAO),
  • the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), and
  • the individual Inspectors General themselves.

New or revised responsibilities

• OMB would take over several coordination and workforce-related roles, including developing policies and plans for inspector general staffing, training, and government-wide coordination.
• GAO would develop standards for inspector general offices to conduct inspections.
• FLETC would be responsible for maintaining one or more training academies for auditors, investigators, inspectors, evaluators, and other inspector general personnel.
• Inspector general offices would still be expected to work together to identify fraud, waste, and abuse across federal programs.
• For disputes involving more than one inspector general office, OMB would serve as the reviewer and mediator, except in certain national security matters.
• Inspector general offices would still have duties related to whistleblower protection, including helping whistleblower coordinators and developing best practices for handling protected disclosures and retaliation claims.

Personnel, funds, and legal continuity

• Money in CIGIE’s revolving fund would be transferred to the Director of FLETC.
• Relevant property, records, personnel, and unused funds connected to transferred functions would move to the receiving agency or official.
• CIGIE employees would generally be separated from civil service when the council is abolished, except for any positions transferred as part of the bill.
• Existing orders, contracts, proceedings, lawsuits, and other official actions would generally continue after the transfer, so ongoing matters would not automatically stop because of the change.

Other technical changes

The bill also makes many cross-reference and conforming edits throughout federal law to remove references to CIGIE and replace them with the officials or agencies taking over its responsibilities. These edits affect several laws involving inspector general operations, budget reporting, training, whistleblower matters, defense oversight, intelligence oversight, and related administrative processes.

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