Pete Marocco, the State Department official who oversaw the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the main government agency distributing foreign aid, announced in an email on Tuesday night that he would be replaced at the agency by two officials who had been involved in making the cuts.
Mr. Marocco said in the email that he would remain at the State Department as director of foreign aid, but that two other officials would handle what remains of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Those officials are Jeremy Lewin, who has been working for the cost-cutting task force led by the billionaire Elon Musk, and Kenneth Jackson, a State Department official who was named the acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace this week.
Mr. Lewin will be the aid agency’s deputy administrator for policy and programs, and function as its chief operating officer. Mr. Jackson will be deputy administrator for management and resources, and serve as its chief financial officer.
The changes were effective immediately, according to the email, a copy of which was seen by The New York Times and several people who received it. A State Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Marocco’s tumultuous tenure at U.S.A.I.D. was marked by drastic cuts as Mr. Musk’s team tried to shut down the agency. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that he had canceled 83 percent of the agency’s programs. What used to be a staff of roughly 10,000 is now down to a skeleton crew.