USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usaid-inspector-fired-trump-freeze-b2696917.html

27 comments

  1. The Orange Führer, who doesn’t take any accountability for anything, makes a bad decision and fires someone for pointing it out?

    I’m shocked! /s

  2. This is how fascists work. The use power as a weapon against their critics, hoping to silence the next one.

  3. Fired for highlighting how stupid this administration is. Wow.

  4. >The purpose of the inspector general is to conduct independent investigations and audits into any potential fraud, waste or abuse and issue recommendations of its findings – something slowly being replaced by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.[…]
    >Martin’s termination is also subject to some regulations. The administration is required to provide Congress 30 days’ notice before firing an inspector general and provide specific reasons for terminating watchdogs.

    Musk’s DOGE didn’t replace the watchdog.:

    Rubio unveils plan to review and potentially abolish USAID
    >At the same time, the chief diplomat assumed more direct control of USAID, taking on the role of acting administrator and naming a Trump loyalist, **Peter W. Marocco**, to oversee an agency review and potential cuts.
    [Washingtonpost](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/03/usaid-rubio-trump-musk/)

  5. Weird how aggressive this administration is about hiding the truth. From America’s most truthful president ever per Faux News is unusual.

  6. That’s why I believe this admin very quickly would mess up big time, like really messed up. Because they can’t take any criticism, and when people even just point out the obvious would just get fired. We have seen that in China, Soviet Union and the California water recently. Very soon they would tank the economy, and the red state would be hit the most. But when anyone speaks up, would be attacked and fired until heading straight to a recession.

  7. So we’re going to end up

    • Completely Bankrupt Broke

    • Vulnerable without Aid

    • Starving from Famine

    Because a convicted felon and sexual predator, same person, doesn’t know how to do shit because he’s bullshitted his was through life on Daddy’s Dollar while his fan base ignores the news by watching Fox News or CNN.

  8. “Yarvin gave a talk about “rebooting” the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym “RAGE”, which he defined as “Retire All Government Employees”. He described what he felt were flaws in the accepted “World War II mythology”, alluding to the idea that Hitler’s invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America’s “ruling communists”, who invented political correctness as an “extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists”. “If Americans want to change their government,” he said, “they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.”

    “Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his “most important connection”. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice President JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence. The Director of Policy Planning during Trump’s second presidency, Michael Anton, has also discussed Yarvin’s ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was “an informal guest of honor” due to his “outsize influence over the Trumpian right.”

  11. Paul Martin, who had been appointed inspector general for the agency by former president Joe Biden in 2023, was informed by email from the Office of Presidential Personnel that his position was terminated “effective immediately.”

    It occurred one day after Martin’s office released a scathing report that warned more than $489 million worth of food assistance was at risk of spoilage after the Trump administration issued an unclear aid freeze guidance, ordered staff to refrain from “external communications” and placed more than 90 percent of USAID workforce on paid administrative leave.

    The office said that while initial guidance provided a funding waiver for emergency food assistance, shipments were delayed globally because staff faced conflicting instructions and were concerned about breaking the order on external communications.

  12. I sense a falling out of windows trend to begin any day now.

  13. Remember when some obscure billionaire was going to give an extraordinary prize to someone who could come up with a solution to end world hunger?

  14. When do we do the French part of this whole thing?

  15. That food was approved, paid for, and ready to go out. To “save money,” they let it spoil in a warehouse. This is what happens when you put critically unqualified people in charge.

  16. Kids starving and food rotting.

    Brought to you by the richest man in human history.

  17. Not like there is a ton of poverty in many areas this could be immediately put to use in. Fuck MAGA

  18. How do all you so called “Christian’s” square that circle? Seeing yourselves yet for the hypocrites you actually are?

  19. These ghouls would rather see food go bad than feed hungry people.

  21. The coup may fail because of mistakes like this, because they attract attention that weighs heavily against them. They could have very seriously-looking shut things down in an orderly businesslike-looking manner. Like making sure all perishables are sent through the system before they disappear the system. It takes more time and effort, but optics are all.

  25. The party of fiscal responsibility and combatting government waste, ladies and gentlemen xD

  26. Attacking the whistleblowers. We’re going to see more and more of this

  27. See, that’s the fraud/waste/abuse.

    It isn’t something you can find in an office. You have to go into the field to see if the goods or services were delivered as promised.

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