Administration deployed what agency staff call ‘MAGA commissars’ - young Trump loyalists placed throughout federal agencies to monitor compliance with administration directives and screen remaining career staff for political reliability. These individuals, often without specific agency …
White House Personnel OfficeFederal AgenciesOffice of Personnel Management (OPM)political-controlfederal-workforceloyalty-monitoringcommissarspersonnel-screening+1 more
Loyalty testing regime implemented requiring federal job applicants to write essays explaining how they’d advance Trump’s executive orders, with social media screening for MAGA support becoming standard hiring practice.
OPMWhite House Personnel Officefederal-workforceloyalty-testspolitical-screeninghiring-practices
USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired on February 11, 2025, shortly after his office published a critical report warning that the administration’s foreign aid freeze had compromised oversight of $8.2 billion in humanitarian funds. Martin was the 18th inspector general removed by the …
Paul MartinUSAIDDonald TrumpWhite House Personnel OfficeMarco Rubioinspector-generalusaidforeign-aidretaliationhumanitarian-crisis+1 more