The retaliatory firing of USAID’s inspector general is a travesty by Lucy Lang, opinion contributor - 02/15/25 10:00 AM ET
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These firings were designed to impede and deter independent oversight of the Trump administration, putting taxpayer dollars and program performance at risk.
On Monday, USAID Inspector General Paul Martin did precisely what inspectors general are charged with doing. His office made public the results of an independent analysis designed to promote efficiency and to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse — in this case, in USAID programs and operations.
More specifically, the purpose of this report was to “identify risks and challenges to the safeguarding and distribution of USAID’s $8.2 billion in obligated but undisbursed humanitarian assistance funds following the State Department’s pause on foreign assistance programs and subsequent personnel actions by USAID that have substantially reduced the operational capacity of its Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance.”
The report found that both actions severely compromised USAID’s operations and the dollars already allocated to its programs. One particularly egregious example was that over $480 million in food assistance was at risk of spoilage and diversion and, in the absence of personnel to conduct required vetting, the program was exposed to potential involvement by terrorist organizations.
The USAID inspector general’s report serves as Exhibit A on the need for independent oversight. This is exactly the work that the more than 70 federal inspectors general are charged with doing, along with their state and local counterparts across the country.
Which as expected you ignored as always. You ignore virtually all content given to you.
"Exactly and part of his job was sounding the alarm about USaid before all the hype about it...... Seems he was right in both, sounding the alarm and standing up to trump....... "
It was not, see above, to sound the alarm about USAID abuse of public money, but abuse of USAID by Musk and Trump. You not only ignore the substantive value of the content itself, but totally misrepresent the content.
Frauds misrepresent. That's you. In other words you remain a waste of time talking to.
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