President Donald Trump of the United States on Wednesday fired the independent Inspector General for the US Agency for International Development, USAID, Paul Martin
According to the Washington Post and CNN, this is coming a day after Martin’s office issued a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.
The media outlets cited a two-sentence email from the White House sent on Tuesday to Martin telling him that his position was terminated, effective immediately, but with no explanation of the reasons for the decision.
His office’s report had warned that more than $489 million in food assistance was at risk of spoilage or potential diversion after the Trump administration implemented an aid freeze and stop-work order.
According to the report, it had long identified significant challenges and offered recommendations to improve Agency programming to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.
“However, recent widespread staffing reductions across the Agency… coupled with uncertainty about the scope of foreign assistance waivers and permissible communications with implementers, has degraded USAID’s ability to distribute and safeguard taxpayer-funded humanitarian assistance,” the report had said.
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