Let BHA manage its own hiring of Personal Services Contractors

What has happened

1. Jul 1, 2025 Not started

   USAID notified Congress on 2025-03-28 that it would realign some functions to the State Department by 1 July 2025 and discontinue the rest, and on 2025-07-01 the Secretary of State announced that USAID officially ceased implementing foreign assistance. The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance no longer exists; its functions sit in State's Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response, which is not a delegated hiring authority for Personal Services Contractors. Cluster negative search A in docs/research/ch-09.md (round 3, ticket 11, batch 11b) covers this item: Federal Register full text for the named object over the whole window, the state.gov sitemap URL list (68,040 URLs), and the 119th-Congress nomination record. Federal Register full text: "Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance" 0 documents, "Personal Services Contractor" 1 document (an unrelated HUD information-collection notice).

   • Secretary Rubio press statement: On Delivering an America First Foreign Assistance Program - notice to Congress of the USAID reorganization, realigning some functions to State by 1 July 2025 and discontinuing the rest

     Primary Executive branch Mar 28, 2025

   • Marco Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish text): from 1 July 2025 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance, which passes to the Department of State

     Primary Executive branch Jul 1, 2025