Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated authority over the United States Agency for International Development to a Department of Government Efficiency senior official, according to an email obtained by the Associated Press.
The Tuesday email from USAID Deputy Director Pete Marocco to State Department staff revealed that he would be replaced by Jeremy Lewin of the DOGE and Kenneth Jackson, a State Department official tapped as the acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the New York Times reported.
‘USAID is under control, accountable and stable.’
Marocco noted that the new appointment would be “effective immediately.”
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“It’s been my honor to assist Secretary Rubio in his leadership of USAID through some difficult stages to pivot this enterprise away from its abuses of the past,” Marocco wrote. “Now that
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