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Enrique Roig former USAID coordinator. already mention that word 'catastrophe'.
USAID IG
fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s
dismantling of the agency
The inspector general of the US Agency
for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report
[date -10 February 2025.] critical of the Trump administration’s efforts
to dismantle the agency, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
Paul
Martin was informed by an email from the deputy director of the Office of
Presidential Personnel on Tuesday evening that his position as inspector
general of USAID was “terminated, effective immediately.”
A
spokesperson for the USAID Office of Inspector General confirmed Martin’s
termination and said no reason was given for his ouster. CNN has reached out to
the White House for comment.
The
administration is required under the law to provide 30 days’ notice to Congress
before firing an inspector general and provide case-specific reasons for
getting rid of watchdogs.
Martin
had served as inspector general
since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors
general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his
first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place. An IG conducts
investigations and audits into any potential malfeasance, fraud, waste or abuse
by a government agency or its personnel, and issues reports and recommendations
on its findings. An inspector general’s office is intended to operate
independently.
Staff
from the USAID Office of the Inspector General have also been informed they no
longer have access to their physical office space, two sources familiar with
the matter told CNN. Although the Trump administration closed the headquarters
building of USAID in Washington last week, personnel at the watchdog’s office
had still been permitted to work in person in that same building until Tuesday.
In
a report Monday,
the USAID OIG said that the Trump administration’s reduction of USAID personnel
and its sweeping freeze on foreign assistance had made it more difficult to
track and respond to potential misuse of $8.2 billion in US taxpayer-funded
humanitarian assistance.
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