9. Agency for International Development · Minor

Rapidly staff DDI Center and Hub directorships with political leadership

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“The next conservative Administration should make the rapid staffing of key DDI positions a high priority. Besides the Senate-confirmed Assistant Administrator, the Directors of each of the Centers and Hubs in the Bureau will need political leadership.”

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Aug 28, 2026 Not started
No Center or Hub directorship in the Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation was filled with a political appointee, and no Assistant Administrator for DDI was nominated. Roster check first: `src/data/people.json` has no Current office at USAID; the 119th Congress's 2,077 nominations contain no USAID nomination. Cluster negative search A: "Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation" returns 0 Federal Register documents in the window and the phrase appears nowhere in P.L. 119-75. The Bureau was dissolved with the agency — "a reduction-in-force of nearly all USAID personnel".
- USAID notice, Freedom of Information Act "Still Interested" Inquiry — records "the ongoing reorganization of USAID operations in 2025, including the transition of certain foreign assistance functions to the Department of State and a reduction-in-force of nearly all USAID personnel"
  Primary Executive branch Sep 16, 2025

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Nothing to add beyond the Status note: the negative search is described there, and it was part of one search covering a group of related asks.

Action: appoint
Object: Directors of Centers and Hubs in the Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation (DDI)
ID: 735