Acting leader removed from agency the White House has used to provide jobs to Trump supporters
Source: Washington Post
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Acting leader removed from agency the White House has used to provide jobs to Trump supporters
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. October 18 at 1:19 PM
The White House has removed the acting chief of a small foreign aid office less than two months after he was put in place to quell controversy over the Trump administration’s use of the agency as a source of jobs for political supporters, according to interviews and an internal email obtained by The Washington Post.
Brock Bierman has served as part-time leader of the Millennium Challenge Corporation since Aug. 21, while also juggling responsibilities as an assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“This afternoon the White House directed that Brock Bierman no longer serve as Acting CEO of MCC,” said a brief email to agency staff Wednesday evening. The email offered no explanation for his removal. ... Bierman’s departure is the latest upheaval at an agency that has not had a permanent leader since the start of the Trump administration.
Bierman was the third person in five months to lead the MCC, which promotes economic growth in poor countries. In January, Trump nominated Sean Cairncross to be MCC’s chief executive. The nomination has stalled in the Senate, in part because Cairncross, the former chief operating officer of the Republican National Committee, has no foreign assistance experience.
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Robert O’Harrow Jr. is an investigative and accountability reporter at the The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/robertoharrow
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