Posted on 02/12/2025 5:43:09 AM PST by Red Badger
President Trump’s White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday, a day after the watchdog office issued a report that was critical of the foreign assistance freeze, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.
USAID’s Inspector General Paul Martin was reportedly fired around 6 p.m. local time. No reason was given for his termination, the source added.
Martin’s office published a 6-page report on Monday outlining how the recent State Department’s pause on foreign assistance programs and cutting down the USAID’s staff created “risks and challenges to the safeguarding and distribution of USAID’s $8.2 billion in obligated but undisbursed humanitarian assistance.”
“Specifically, USAID’s existing oversight controls—albeit with previously identified shortcomings—are now largely nonoperational given these recent directives and personnel actions,” the office wrote in the report.
Under the law, the administration is required to give 30-day notice to Congress prior to terminating an inspector general and give reasons why.
Inspectors general are tasked with leading investigations and audits into the abuse, fraud and waste of a government agency they are tied to. They can serve in multiple administrations and also release recommendations and findings of their probes.
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And heads continue to roll
BTTT
Does this kind of firing really mean firing ? Lost job AND pension? Or simply waiting on the bench for another job in another federal agency ?
Paul K Martin has been IG for various federal government agencies since 1985! Turn him upside down and shake his pockets loose.
Which POTUS has authority to choose NOT to disburse.
Fired without explanation indeed.
Don’t know Federal employment rules.............
How many MILLIONS HAS HE GOT?
“USAID’s Inspector General Paul Martin was reportedly fired around 6 p.m. local time. No reason was given for his termination, the source added.”
the untold millions who were uncerimoniously fired as a result of EV mandates, covid, et al. are laughing hard at Paul and his misery
FUPM
Embezzlement For The party
Definition of Humanitarian Aid - a funding source used to provide well connected grafters with a steady stream of finders fees, sweet heart deals, kick backs and off the books political operatives. Brought to you by the same charities that spend 75% of their donations on overhead and officer salaries
Must’ve worked from home.
Did the Big Guy get his 10%?
It is a question worth asking.
Or he can choose to disburse it to different programs which actually fulfill its mandate.
When some one is fired because of Fraud or embezelment you expect a criminal charge to be brought.
I think there will be a lot of that after the purge.
Bump
We are just beginning. But the leading edge is amazing.
Shock and Awe? You could call it that.
Small correction IMHO:
Or he can choose to disburse it to different programs which actually fulfill its DJT's mandate.
This is the most outrageous part of the left's hypocrisy:
Xiden's redirection of funds (ukeland, etc.) vs. DJT's pause on disbursement so he can get a handle on how the slush funds were being distributed (and by whom).
Anyone who thinks the left is crowing loudly now ought wait until DJT decides to act in kind...should he choose to (e.g., laying the groundwork for Vance 2028).
Biden IGs were whores paid to look the other way while the taxpayers were getting robbed blind.
All need to be fired—and any subordinates they appointed.
Otherwise IG remains enemy territory.
It is a great resource with proper leadership.
I don’t think the 30 day warning period is constitutional.
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