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Trump reportedly fires watchdog who oversees USAid after damning report

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Paul Martin , appointed by Joe Biden in December 2023 , was dismissed in an email from the White House .

Martin 's firing comes one day after the independent inspector general issued a damning report detailing the impact of the president’s sudden dismantling of the agency.

The shuttering of USAid was one of the first steps taken by Elon Musk and the newly founded so-called “department of government efficiency”.