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Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 04:24 PM1 min read• Dispatch by Molly Knight RaskinVerified Wire
A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There

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Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
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