Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the “restructuring” of the State Department on Tuesday, planning to reduce staffing and consolidate domestic offices.
Although the cuts will not be made anytime soon, senior State Department officials told reporters that Rubio’s announcement has provided a roadmap for future cuts and Congress has been notified to begin the process. The senior official said that the secretariats of various departments of the State Department must present plans in about 30 days on how they will eliminate positions.
Rubio has reposted the “X” post. Free Press journalists said the move would involve ordering 132 offices to close, 137 offices elsewhere and cutting staffing in the range of 15-17%. Another State Department official told reporters Tuesday that personnel cuts would be 22%.
Some agency offices being cut off are reposted by the “X” Post Rubio, which aims to counter further human rights, foreign democracy, extremism and prevent war crimes. Asked about the World Criminal Justice Department, which helped investigate war crimes and was missing from the proposed “reorganization” chart, Pentagon spokesman Tammy Bruce said, “It’s now folded into another large station, so it doesn’t mean it’s gone or not bothered.”
Rubio called the State Department in its current form “an inability to carry out essential diplomatic envoys in this new era of massive competition, bureaucratic and inability to carry out essential diplomatic envoys in this new era.”
“Over the past 15 years, the sector’s footprint has seen unprecedented growth and costs surge,” Rubio said in a statement. “But far from seeing return on investment, taxpayers have seen effective and efficient diplomacy. The vast bureaucracy has created a system that is watched by radical political ideologies rather than advancing America’s core national interests.”
“So today I am announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan to introduce divisions in the 21st century,” Rubio continued. “This approach will strengthen the department from scratch, from the department to the embassy. Region-specific functions will improve functionality, remove redundant offices and no longer exist that are misaligned as the interests of the core American citizens.”
An official from the State Department who explained to reporters emphasized that this was a “pure domestic plan” that “has nothing to do with foreign missions.”
“That doesn’t mean there’s no subsequent decisions on foreign missions, but that’s not the case,” the official said.
Rubio’s notice to Congress states that the State Department is officially responsible for maintaining humanitarian programming; Most remaining USAID functions It will be absorbed by the State Department.
A senior State Department official said these changes were “an attempt to return to the traditional roots of the State Department, which is the advantage of the regional and foreign missions.”
Changes to the State Department come in the efforts of the Trump administration Most USAID shutters.
