To be America first: Trump’s team offers a change in the State Department
The Trump Administration offers a major overhaul of the US State Department, which will eliminate over 100 services, including some military crimes and rights protection, to ensure that the Washington Higher Diplomatic Agency is in line with President Donald Trump’s priorities in the first place.
The plan for which the Congress has been notified will remove 132 of the 734 offices and offices of the department, said in an internal note from the State Department, seen by Reuters. Deputy Secretary will submit plans to reduce staff by 15%, the document is added.
It has not been known immediately how many people will be shortened as a result of the update, but a report in the online publication FREE Press, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio has published on X, said another 700 positions would be removed in closed offices.
« In its current form, the department is inflated, bureaucratic and unable to fulfill its main diplomatic mission in this new era of competition between the great powers, » Rubio said in a statement. « That is why today I announce a comprehensive reorganization plan that will introduce the ministry in the 21st century. This approach will allow the ministry from the beginning, from the offices to the embassies, » Rubio said.
Both Rubio and employees said that the inflated structure of the State Department makes it impossible for the rapid and efficient decision -making and that the new plan would try to enable regional bureaus to increase functionality and eliminate offices and programs that do not comply with the main national interests of America.
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Trump has issued a separate executive order in February, ordered Rubio to update the US Foreign Office and how the State Department is functioning to ensure that the US Diplomatic Corps faithfully fulfill its program.
| The proposed reorganization seems less drastic than many in the department feared. It leaves some services that deal with democracy, human rights and refugees. |
The plan, announced on Tuesday, focuses on changes to the Washington department headquarters, a high -ranking staff of the State Department told reporters asked about the number of missions that can be closed abroad as part of the shaking.
« This is a purely internal plan. It has nothing to do with any foreign missions. This does not mean that there will be no subsequent solutions for foreign missions, » said the employee who requested anonymity.
US officials said in March that the department is also preparing to close nearly a dozen consulates.
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According to the new organizational scheme, published by the State Department, the service of global criminal justice, which monitors the atrocities abroad and cooperates with foreign governments for potential war crimes, is eliminated.
Officials from the Deputy Secretary at the state level have 30 days to evaluate how many jobs will be removed from the proposed reorganization, which also reinforces the actions of the administration to swallow the US Department of International Development Agency, said a senior official of the State Department.
