A nonprofit representing government whistleblowers is busy these days.
Since its formation in the early 1990s, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has provided legal help and resources to government whistleblowers across presidential administrations.
“Whistleblowing has traditionally been a nonpartisan thing,” said Tim Whitehouse, who joined PEER as its executive director in 2019, following stints leading Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility and a decade at EPA.
But under Trump 2.0, PEER has seen a “20-fold increase” over previous years in the number of civil servants reaching out for help, Whitehouse said.
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