Posted on 02/17/2017 9:10:13 AM PST by Helicondelta
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.
Staffers in the offices of deputy secretary of state for management and resources as well as counselor were shown the door Thursday, according to CBS News.
Many of those let go were on the building’s seventh floor — top-floor bigs — a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.
This week’s round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month.
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These career government employees don’t know what it’s like to be able to just lose your gig at a moment’s notice. It’s high time they did.
When they hit 7,000 I will start to take notice. I think there are 69,000 in the department so I couldn’t say 70,000.
He wasn’t sent to the State Dept. to keep doing what they do.
Frankly, if there isn’t massive change at State, Trump doesn’t need him to run it.
Doing the job he expected to do.
Refreshing. Excellent.
Draining the swamp ,,, cleaning house ,,, call it what you wish but say goodbye to bad apples .
It’s a start. Hopefully something similar happens at DOJ soon.
By far, the best news I’ve read today.
Time to look at the sixth floor now...
Old proverb:
A New Broom Sweeps Clean.
what’s on their computers
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Yes, it would be interesting. I hope they sent these people out without any notice whatsoever.
..and will be interesting to see if some of the leaks stop.
It sounds like A good start — drain the Swamp!! Clean out ALL the anti- American globalists and islamists and commies and Nazis. Probably a couple thousand vacancies — soon!!! A huge huge improvement. Go Trump!
Many of their underlings should soon be following...
Hmmm ... maybe they could shore up the Oroville Dam spillway with chained up bundles of lawyers.
It’s a new drinking song!!!
“99 Democrat traitors in the State Department
99 Democrat traitors.
Take one down
Kick him out of town
98 Democrat traitors in the State Department.
98 Democrat traitors in the State Department
98 Democrat traitors.....”
If only.
Maybe she got confused with the “7th Floor’ part of the story.
Given that we are talking about the State Departing, if there isn’t a wood chipper involved, it ain’t enough of a bloodbath.
Joe McCarthy was right.
Good! Get rid of all the obama and Clinton traitors. I wish that they could be executed. The World would be a better place with them. For a little while at least.
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