{"id":32102,"date":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/trump-ally-peter-marocco-behind-evisceration-of-usaid-hes-a-destroyer\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","slug":"trump-ally-peter-marocco-behind-evisceration-of-usaid-hes-a-destroyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/trump-ally-peter-marocco-behind-evisceration-of-usaid-hes-a-destroyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: \u2018He\u2019s a destroyer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/28\/charities-reeling-from-usaid-freeze-warn-of-life-or-death-effects\">Trump administration\u2019s evisceration of US overseas aid<\/a> has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly having been present at the January 6 insurrection when rioters stormed the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Marocco has accumulated power in the office of foreign assistance, informally called \u201cF\u201d, that traditionally has helped coordinate US foreign aid programs. But under Marocco, it has enforced a full-scale freeze on overseas aid and a stop-work order that has in effect halted operations and already led to hundreds of layoffs in the United States and overseas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/peter-marocco-trump-usaid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot The Trump administration\u2019s evisceration of US overseas aid has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly &#8230; <a title=\"Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: \u2018He\u2019s a destroyer\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/trump-ally-peter-marocco-behind-evisceration-of-usaid-hes-a-destroyer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: \u2018He\u2019s a destroyer\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}