9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Name a political appointee to head USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance
Printed page 263 9. Agency for International Development
“To ensure that USAID exercises its existing authorities to streamline procurement processes, the next conservative Administration should name a political appointee as the agency’s Senior Procurement Executive and Director of the agency’s Office of Assistance and Acquisitions (OAA) in the Bureau of Management (M).”
What has happened
- 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 Management and its Office of Acquisition and Assistance went with the agency; no Senior Procurement Executive or M/OAA director was named, and State's Bureau of Global Acquisitions is a pre-existing office with a different remit. 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: "Office of Acquisition and Assistance" 1 hit (an unrelated SES career-reserved-positions notice), "Senior Procurement Executive" 39 hits, none of them USAID or State foreign assistance; no state.gov sitemap URL contains "acquisition-and-assistance"; the 119th Congress nomination record contains no USAID nomination of any kind.
- 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
- 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
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- This is an appointment ask, so our roster of the people credited in the Mandate was checked first. Neither of the two Chapter 9 people with a USAID background (Jennifer Hazelton, Max Primorac) currently holds an office, and no one on the roster matches this post.
Researched 2026-08-28.
- Action
- appoint
- Object
- Senior Procurement Executive and Director of M/OAA
- ID
- 681