9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Create a confidential channel for staff political-retaliation claims
Printed page 258 9. Agency for International Development
“The next conservative Administration should dismantle USAID’s DEI apparatus by eliminating the Chief Diversity Officer position along with the DEI advisers and committees; cancel the DEI scorecard and dashboard; remove DEI requirements from contract and grant tenders and awards; issue a directive to cease promotion of the DEI agenda, including the bullying LGBTQ+ agenda; and provide staff a confidential medium through which to adjudicate cases of political retaliation that agency or implementing staff suffered during the Biden Administration.”
What has happened
- Not started
No confidential medium for adjudicating claims of political retaliation suffered during the Biden administration was found, at USAID or at the Department that absorbed it. USAID ceased implementing foreign assistance on 2025-07-01 and its staff were separated; the 2025-03-18 Foreign Service memorandum runs the other way, directing Secretaries to identify and act against employees who engaged in discrimination, and creates no channel for staff complaints. Nothing on state.gov's 68,040-URL sitemap matches "political-retaliation", and no Federal Register document in the window establishes such a channel.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The negative search for this ask was one search covering it together with a group of related asks.
- Action
- create
- Object
- Confidential medium for adjudicating political retaliation cases
- ID
- 656