9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Restore the Senior Official Accountability Review (SOAR)
Printed page 263 9. Agency for International Development
“The Administration should restore the Senior Official Accountability Review (SOAR) or create a similar process to ensure that proposed programs above a certain dollar threshold in Total Estimated Cost/Total Estimated Amount receive a close review by policymakers in each bureau and office and, for large awards, in the agency’s front office.”
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. No Senior Official Accountability Review or comparable dollar-threshold policy review was restored or created, at USAID or 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 "Senior Official Accountability Review" returns 0 documents for the whole window; no state.gov sitemap URL contains "soar"; State's FY26 SFOAA report index (222 dated reports to Congress) lists nothing of the kind.
Research log
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Research notes
Researched 2026-08-28.
- Action
- restore
- Object
- Senior Official Accountability Review (SOAR)
- ID
- 684