A senior State Department official who masterminded the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has left his role after less than three months, a U.S. official said.
Pete Marocco had been serving as the State Department’s director of the Office of Foreign Assistance since January and as deputy administrator of USAID led the mission to shut the agency down. Previously responsible for distributing foreign aid to impoverished countries, USAID has seen 83 percent of its funding to overseas projects canceled since Trump’s inauguration in a move that has provoked widespread outrage.
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