Officials at USAID warned that favoring Christian groups in Iraq could be uncons utional and inflame religious tensions.

When one colleague lost her job, they said she had been “Penced.”

 a stark reality under the Trump White House. Decisions about U.S. aid are often

no longer being governed by career professionals applying a rigorous review of applicants and their capabilities.

Over the last two years, political pressure, particularly from the office of Vice President Mike Pence, had seeped into aid deliberations and convinced key decision-makers that unless they fell in line, their jobs could be at stake.

Five months before Ferguson sent the email, his former boss had been ousted following a mandate from Pence’s chief of staff. Pence had grown displeased with USAID’s work in Iraq after Christian groups were turned down for aid.

the success of Pence and his allies in influencing the government’s long-standing process for awarding foreign aid.

The Trump administration’s efforts to influence USAID funding sparked concern from career officials, who worried the agency risked

violating cons utional prohibitions on favoring one religion over another.

“There are very deliberate procurement guidelines that have developed over a number of years to guard precisely against this kind of behavior,”

“you’re diluting the very nature of what development programs ought to accomplish.”

USAID regulations statethat awards

“must be free from political interference or even the appearance of such interference

and must be made on the basis of merit, not on the basis of the religious affiliation of a recipient organization, or lack thereof.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mike-pences-office-meddled-in-foreign-aid-to-reroute-money-to-favored-christian-groups?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_camp aign=majorinvestigations

Repug MISgovernance,

All (Christian supremacy) Politics,

All The Time

(and the civil service, career professionals, rules, regs, laws)

For Repugs, USA is NOT a nation of laws, but a political/financial slush fund.