Peter Marocco, who led the Office of Foreign Assistance at the U.S. State Department and was considered the point person for dismantling USAID, has left the State Department, according to The Wall Street Journal, which spoke to a U.S. official who said it wasn’t Marocco’s choice to leave after barely three months in office.
A senior administration official confirmed Marocco’s departure to WSJ. “Pete was brought to State with a big mission — to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance,” the official says. “He conducted that historic task and exposed egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. We all expect big things are in store for Pete on his next mission.”
“He is no longer at State,” the official says.