A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Dismantled USAID—and HR Had No Record of Him
A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old DOGE operative, oversaw the destruction of USAID even though the agency's human resources department said he had never been onboarded. WIRED reports that it remains unclear whether Lewin had the legal authority to carry out the dismantling, raising questions about how an unofficial figure could wield such sweeping power over a federal agency.
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.