USAID’s Inspector General was fired on Tuesday night, “with no reason given,” according to an official familiar with the situation.
Paul Martin has served as USAID’s Inspector General for just over a year. His office monitored USAID programs for waste, fraud, and abuse.
Martin’s firing came in the form of an email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, just a day after his office published a report detailing the impacts of President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze. The report found the dismantling of USAID had curtailed the agency’s ability to vet humanitarian awards for terrorist links and monitor aid distributions in high-risk areas.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
