EXCLUSIVE — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast called USAID “rotten to the core,” citing a memo from the federal agency’s watchdog circulated as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk undertook drastic reforms.

Mast, who became the top foreign policy House Republican at the start of the 119th Congress, told the Washington Examiner that USAID Inspector General Paul Martin, appointed by former President Joe Biden, exposed “the web of unaccountability at USAID that Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have called out for years.”