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Former USAID employee tells Oversight Committee Democrats his evacuation left staff unpaid and without due process
Summary
Marcus Do, a former USAID employee, told committee members he and colleagues were evacuated from Kinshasa, DRC, and that waiver funding and evacuee expenses were delayed or unpaid; he also said he was investigated after an ABC News interview. No formal action is recorded in the transcript.
Marcus Do, a former USAID employee, told members of the committee that he and his family were evacuated from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under violent conditions last year and that agency procedures left many federal employees without due process and with unpaid expenses.
Do described fleeing explosions and gunfire and traveling with only carry-on bags, saying evacuation funding required a waiver that "was not completed until we were already out of the country." He said months of…
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