USAID inspector general fired days after publishing report critical of aid pause

The White House has fired the inspector wide of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Fox News has learned.

USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired Tuesday, though alternatively than coming from USAID acting head and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the firing reportedly came from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

The dismissal comes days aft the USAID inspector wide published a study that was captious of the Trump administration’s intermission connected aid.

It besides comes a time aft USAID warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it each but intolerable to show $8.2 cardinal successful humanitarian funds.

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A United States Agency for International Development (USAID) emblem successful beforehand of the agency's offices successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

USAID is nether occurrence from the Trump administration arsenic the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its chair, Elon Musk, analyse the agency’s spending practices and hole to revamp and perchance shutter the agency. 

The bureau announced connected its website Feb. 4, that astir each unit would beryllium placed connected permission by Friday, making a fewer exceptions for those successful roles related to "mission-critical functions, halfway enactment and specially designated programs." 

Its overseas missions reportedly had besides been told to unopen down.

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The Trump medication fired USAID's inspector wide connected Tuesday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File/Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Lawmakers, quality outlets and deliberation tanks person dug into past reports related to USAID spending amid the evident dismantling of the agency, uncovering countless examples of wealth channeled to questionable organizations oregon programs, specified arsenic creating a mentation of "Sesame Street" successful Iraq, oregon backing pottery classes successful Morocco.

This week, it was discovered that USAID provided millions of dollars successful backing to extremist groups tied to designated violent organizations and their allies, according to a study published by Middle East Forum, a U.S. deliberation tank.

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USAID was established successful 1961 nether the Kennedy administration, operating arsenic an autarkic bureau that works intimately with the State Department to allocate civilian overseas aid. 

Under Rubio, the bureau could beryllium abolished aft its reorganization implicit the coming days, helium said successful a missive to bipartisan lawmakers connected Feb. 3.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.