9. Agency for International Development · Minor

Appoint a Senior Accountable Official for policy adherence

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Printed page 279 9. Agency for International Development

“The Administration should appoint a Senior Accountable Official (SAO) to report on the agency’s adherence to Administration policy priorities, including on Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance, critical race theory, climate change, gender, and diversity and inclusion.”

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Jan 27, 2026 Not started
No Senior Accountable Official was appointed. Roster check first: `src/data/people.json` has no Current office matching, and no USAID nomination appears in the 119th Congress. Cluster negative search A, plus a targeted full-text check: "Senior Accountable Official" with "foreign assistance" returns 0 Federal Register documents for the window. What the administration built instead is enforcement by award term, not by reporting officer: the three Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance rules of 27 January 2026 — Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance, Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance and Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance Rules — write four of the five policy priorities the Quote lists into binding terms for all Department foreign assistance. Their operative text, read at govinfo, designates no accountable official and creates no reporting line; climate change is not among the subjects covered.
- Department of State final rule, Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance — one of the three Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance award-term rules binding all Department foreign assistance
  Primary Executive branch Jan 27, 2026

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Evidence is attached to a not started event under the rule that action bearing on an ask carries its dated Primary citation on the Status record: the rules are what happened instead of the appointment, and the front page never shows a not started event, so nothing leaks there.
The companion rules are FR 2026-01516 (gender ideology) and FR 2026-01517 (discriminatory equity ideology), both published 2026-01-27 and both read in full in that day’s Federal Register on govinfo.gov.

Action: appoint
Object: Senior Accountable Official (SAO)
ID: 751