Posted on 01/19/2025 5:46:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Department effective at noon on Monday after receiving instructions to do so from President-elect Donald Trump’s aides, said three U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The forced departures, aimed at establishing a decisive break from the Biden administration, will see an exodus of decorated veterans of the Foreign Service, including John Bass, the undersecretary for management and acting under secretary for political affairs, and Geoff Pyatt, the assistant secretary for energy resources, said the officials, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel decisions ahead of Monday’s inauguration.
Requesting the resignations, the prerogative of any incoming administration, indicates a desire to quickly shift the tone and makeup of the State Department as Trump seeks to upend the global diplomatic chess board after four years of President Joe Biden. Key priorities for Trump include imposing sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries, ending the war in Ukraine, solidifying the wobbly ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants.
“It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump’s vision for putting our nation and America’s working men and women first. We have a lot of failures to fix and that requires a committed team focused on the same goals,” said a spokesperson for the transition team.
The State Department declined to comment.
On Friday, the Trump team made clear to many of the department’s career officials serving as assistant secretaries and in other high-level positions that they would not be needed beyond Monday.
Some incoming presidents choose to keep a larger stable of career diplomats in senior roles until handpicked political appointees receive Senate confirmation. Instead, Trump has authorized the selection...
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Well said!
Godpseed to the people of this Republic and to President Trump and his band of disruptors.
And bless you, linMcHlp. Always enjoy having discourse with a reasoned person...especially when I am not feeling inclined to reason!
You bet. Thanks for reading. I understandably get a good number of TL/DR responses, but...I cannot change at this stage of my life!
Yes. I like the way you said that, because we damn well need to disrupt them. Otherwise, like an underground fire in a seam of coal, they will surface again to begin expressing their evil when people are unprepared.
Verily. Power is their god, and they worship it with zeal.
Yep. To them, government IS power, and yes...they worship it and always covet to control it with their rat-claws!
AKA "The Swamp" AKA "The Deep State". We're great at metaphors but somewhat lacking in clarity.
What are all these things? Just "the enemy"? What's that? Anyone who disagrees with us?
No, our enemy is well-defined, huge, and yet able to somehow hide.
Our enemy is nothing less than the 80%, $3+ trillion UNCONSTITUTIONAL federal gov't that is the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and well being.
To recover our Free Constitutional Republic, we MUST ELIMINATE the unconstitutional portion of the feds much of which is the illegal and odious "Regulatory State" which employs MILLIONS, ALL of which MUST GO.
Trump is a start, but we need non-politician warriors in 2028 to extend and expand MAGA until the Constitution is reinstated as the Supreme Law of Land and the Feds are once again chained to the limitations of the Constitution.
The only one I see like that on the horizon is Vivek who should have been appointed as Trump's VP as Trump's VP will be the presidential frontrunner in 2028.
May God help us.
Hear! Hear!
It is a good day for the republic.
Yup.
Yes. I am listening to his Inaugural Address. Many people say the things he said while running were just campaign rhetoric, but...it sure doesn’t sound that way to me.
I heard part of his speech: no “bipartisan can’t we all get along” bullcrap. Not a single concession on anything.
Thank you, enjoy the next four years!
Sometimes when you use the Speedreader function of your browser to bypass a paywall the entire article doesn’t show up when the page opens. If you hit the reload icon the rest of it will show up on the refresh. I just opened the page in Speedreader and the same to two paragraphs showed up, but when I hit reload the entire article showed up.
Wonderful summary and tribute. Thank you. Here’s to working hard and staying the course for 2026, 2028 and forever.
You are most welcome, thank you for that praise. Today is a great day!
You don’t comment often, but when you do, it’s outstanding!
Thank you for saying so, Chainmail...sure feels like a new day today. That was a memorable day yesterday!
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