A day after his office, an agency official published a report on the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate the agency.
Paul Martin has served as the Agency’s Inspector General, a position that requires the confirmation of the US Senate, since December 2023.
Martin “said that he was” removed from his position. “
Martin was informed by Email from Trent Morsi, Deputy Director of the Presidential Personnel Office. Martin Martin told his position as a general inspector of the US Agency for International Development had been completed “in effect immediately”, and a copy of the email showed.
No reason has been provided. The White House had no comment.
On Monday, the Inspector General Office issued a report that the Trump administration’s transfer to dismantling the United States Agency for International Development has paralyzed its ability to conduct unlikely aid of 8.2 billion dollars.
The report said that employee discounts and orders to stop work made it difficult to ensure that the taxpayers funded will end in the hands of those intended.
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Hundreds of American International Development Agency programs have stopped all over the world, which represents billions of dollars in American assistance.
On Tuesday, Trump described the United States Agency for International Development as “incompetent and corrupt”, as billionaires assigned Elon Musk to reduce the agency, which had more than 10,000 employees at home and abroad above all, but slightly more than 600 on vacation.
Last week, the Trump administration took steps to put most of the workforce of the United States Agency for International Development on administrative leave, but this step was banned by a judge on Friday.
In the fiscal year 2023, the United States spent $ 72 billion of aid around the world on initiatives including women’s health in conflict areas, access to clean water, HIV/AIDS, energy security, and anti -corruption work. It provided 42 % of all the humanitarian aid followed by the United Nations in 2024.
The financing, which is less than 1 % of the American federal budget, was justified historically as Washington’s efforts to build alliances around the world, enhance diplomacy and confront the influence of opponents such as China and Russia in the developing world.
– Report by Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Jasper Ward. Additional reports by Nandita Boss; The liberation of Sinatia Ostroman
