9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Replace USAID's Competition Advocate
Printed page 271 9. Agency for International Development
“The Administration should change the designation of USAID’s Competition Advocate to an individual favorable to innovative types of contracts that can reduce the aid oligopoly’s grip on the agency.”
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 Competition Advocate designation lapsed with the agency and no redesignation was made. Federal Register full text "Competition Advocate" returns 0 documents for the window and no state.gov sitemap URL contains the term. 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.
- 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; no one on it currently holds an office matching this post.
Researched 2026-08-28.
- Action
- appoint
- Object
- USAID Competition Advocate
- ID
- 716