Make the Senior Advisor for Brand Management a political appointee

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. USAID's Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs ceased to exist along with the Senior Advisor for Brand Management post, and no equivalent political appointment was made at State. 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 Legislative and Public Affairs" returns 0 documents for the window; the 119th Congress nomination record contains no USAID nomination.

   • 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