The State Department is an entity unto itself. It answers to no one and elected officials will never rein it in by cutting the money. Even Reagan wouldn’t take on State.
The State Department has always been antisemitic, originally stocked with blueblood northeastern liberals. The rise of Arab oil has given it rationale.
Congress in 1995 passed a law recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and stating that “the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” An inbuilt waiver authority allowed the president to postpone the move, in the interests of “national security,” for consecutive six-monthly periods.
Not the State Dept.