Rubio’s firing of Marocco ignites a MAGA world meltdown. When Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement.

Marocco, a former Trump appointee and longtime critic of USAID, was pushed out of the agency during Trump’s first term. He also was allegedly photographed storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pete Marocco, the executive director of Dallas HERO, and his wife, Merritt Corrigan Marocco, have been accused by citizen investigators of entering the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 ...

Pete Marocco, the State Department official who took over the remains of U.S.A.I.D., during a round table discussion in Colombia in 2019. He has described the agency as something of a rogue ...

Pete Marocco (center), who served as deputy administrator for USAID in the new Trump administration until last week, arrives at Capitol Hill on March 5 to meet with members of Congress to discuss ...

Marocco’s departure comes during a period of profound change at the nation’s premier diplomatic agency. A State Department reorganization plan is due Monday to the Office of Management and Budget.

Pete Marocco oversaw the cutting of thousands of contracts at U.S.A.I.D. and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers. Aid agency employees have accused him of mismanagement.

Peter Marocco, the acting director for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said he's eyeing potential charges for foreign aid fraud.

In early 2023, online sleuths who aided the FBI in cases against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters identified Marocco and his now-wife as being among the rioters who stormed the Capitol in 2021, pointing ...