What Just Happened: Trump Admin’s State Dept Reorganization

Foggy Bottom 2.0: State Department Gets a Face Lift - Liberty Nation News

By Dave Patterson Foggy Bottom is bracing for major changes. Inside-the-beltway policy wonks have been chattering for days about a Trump administration draft plan to reorganize the State Department. Ossified intellects in the current organization are aghast that anyone would consider changing how things are done. It’s unthinkable. Well, not so much, since agents of change started to […]

Marco Rubio advances plan to slash key parts of the State Department

Marco Rubio's first step toward overhauling the State Department is drawing fierce criticisms. The secretary's second step might actually be worse.

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News, issues and events that caught our eye. Trump Reorganizes Gov’t, But (Much) More Is Left To Do Trump readying an executive order for ‘a disciplined reorganization’ of the State Department . . . — New York Times, via Yahoo . . . And Here It Is: State Department to close 132 offices in sweeping […]

What Just Happened: Trump Admin’s State Dept Reorganization

If implemented, Rubio's State Department reorganization will reflect a significant shift in how the United States engages with the world.

Washington. The head of U.S. diplomacy, Marco Rubio, revealed on Tuesday a comprehensive reorganization project of the State Department that includes the elimination of some positions in charge of overseeing human rights or war crimes in the world, as they are considered to be far from the ideological objectives of President Donald Trump.The U.S. diplomatic apparatus takes time in the sights of conservatives, supporters of a government less focu…

The Trump Administration's proposed reorganization plan abolishes the highest diplomatic post dedicated to human rights and civil security, eliminates key offices for global equity and accountability, for global women's issues, and completes the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).