{"id":8247,"date":"2025-04-15T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-official-who-led-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid-exits-state-department\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:18","slug":"trump-official-who-led-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid-exits-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-official-who-led-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid-exits-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump official who led efforts to dismantle USAID exits State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Marocco, an official who oversaw the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has exited the State Department, according to the Trump administration. &ldquo;Pete was brought to State with a big mission &mdash; to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5248429-trump-official-who-led-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid-exits-state-department\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Marocco, an official who oversaw the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has exited the State Department, according to the Trump administration. &ldquo;Pete was brought to State with a big mission &mdash; to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}