Trump Names Paul Ingrassia to Lead Office of Special Counsel (1)

President Donald Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia to head up the Office of Special Counsel.

If confirmed by the Senate, Ingrassia, currently the White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, will lead the independent agency tasked with policing political corruption and abuse of government employees. The office fields whistleblower complaints and administers the Hatch Act, which is aimed at keeping political activity out of government operations.

Ingrassia is a “highly respected attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar” who has done a “tremendous” job in his DHS liaison role, Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday announcing the pick.

After briefly serving as Trump’s liaison to the Department of Justice, Ingrassia moved to his current role as the DHS liaison in February, according to his LinkedIn profile. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 2022 and did short stints on the National Economic Council and as a Capitol Hill reporter for the Daily Caller, according to the profile.

Ingrassia has expressed skepticism of federal agencies, writing in a February Substack post that the president’s will “is subverted by the will of the bureaucracy or administrative or ‘deep’ state.”

Ingrassia thanked Trump in a social media post.

“My team and I will make every effort to restore competence and integrity to the Executive Branch — with priority on eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal workforce and revitalize the Rule of Law and Fairness in Hatch Act enforcement,” he said in a post on X.

Trump fired the last Senate-confirmed special counsel, Hampton Dellinger, in February. The move was followed by a court battle that ended with a federal appellate court allowing the White House to proceed with his removal — a victory for Trump’s effort to exert control over independent agencies.