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  1. #Trump fired head archivist Colleen Shogan in early Feb in an apparent act of #retribution against the #NARA. Leaders of the agency had raised concerns about Trump’s holding onto boxes of #classified documents at his home in Florida after he left office in 2021, though Shogan was not involved in that episode.

    4 days before Shogan’s firing, #Rubio announced he was the acting administrator for #USAID, as #ElonMusk …& #PeteMarocco, a political appointee in the #State Dept, were gutting the agency.

  2. #PeteMarocco, the #Trump admin official who played a major role in dismantling the #USAID, has left the #State Department, a US official said on Sunday.

    Sources told Reuters that #Marocco, who was the director of foreign assistance at the State Department, may have been pushed out but they declined to give further explanation.

    reuters.com/world/us/trump-off

  3. The work on the #abducted #children by the #Yale School of #PublicHealth #Humanitarian #Research Lab was frozen when #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder in late January halting almost all #ForeignAid. Since then, #MarcoRubio & an official under him, #PeteMarocco, have ended the vast majority of foreign #aid contracts, including the one to the Yale lab.

    #geopolitics #USpol #PutinsPuppet #alliance #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

  4. #PeteMarocco, the #State Dept ofcl who oversaw the #Trump admin’s efforts to dismantle the main govt agency distributing foreign #aid, announced in an email on Tues night that he would be replaced at the agency by 2 officials who had been involved in making the cuts.

    Marocco said in the email that he would remain at State as director of #ForeignAid, but that 2 other officials would handle what remains of the #USAID.

    #law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge

  5. Contractors were notified of the termination in a memo sent from #USAID's office of Acquisition & Assistance, according to one such letter obtained by NPR. The memo stated that Secy #MarcoRubio & #PeteMarocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities & made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest."

    #law #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy #SoftPower #USpol #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump

  6. In his statement to the lower court, #PeteMarocco, who is performing the duties of the dpty administrator of #USAID, said each of USAID's grants had been reviewed & Secy of #State #MarcoRubio decided to eliminate about 92% worth of the agency's grants. The State dept also cut around 4,100 grants. The [#Trump admin is claiming]…a total savings of nearly $60B dollars.

    #law #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy #SoftPower #USpol #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

  7. Another fired employee said the hundreds of dismissals meant that the #aid agency now had only a skeleton crew to respond to #humanitarian crises.

    The appointee running day-to-day operations at #USAID is #PeteMarocco, a #State Dept official overseeing foreign aid who was a #divisive figure at the agency & other government departments in the first #Trump administration. Early this month, #MarcoRubio announced he was taking over the aid agency as acting administrator.

    #MassFirings #Musk #USpol

  8. Rubio tapped #PeteMarocco, the director of foreign assistance at the #State Dept, to begin reviewing all of the work done by #USAID.…

    …In early 2023, online sleuths who aided the FBI in cases against hundreds of #Jan6 rioters identified #Marocco & his now-wife as being among the rioters who stormed the Capitol…, pointing to multiple images of them on the Capitol grounds that day & CCTV video that shows…Marocco entering the Capitol through a broken window.

    #law #USpol
    nbcnews.com/politics/white-hou