{
  "id": 16770318,
  "title": "A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/a-28-year-old-doge-operative-gutted-usaid-hr-had-no-record-of-him",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-27T16:24:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
    "slug": "wired",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/a-28-year-old-doge-operative-gutted-usaid-hr-had-no-record-of-him-working-there/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}