9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Shift PPL's policy functions to the Office of Budget and Resource Management
Printed page 271 9. Agency for International Development
“The next conservative Administration should shift the policy functions of the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL) to the Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM), located in the Office of the Administrator.”
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. Both offices ceased to exist with the agency: the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning and the Office of Budget and Resource Management in the Office of the Administrator. Federal Register full text returns 0 documents for either name over the window, and no state.gov sitemap URL contains "policy-planning-and-learning" or "budget-and-resource-management". 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
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Research notes
Researched 2026-08-28.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- Policy functions of the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL)
- ID
- 721