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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Yes!
How many scores?
He’s not even inaugurated yet and there’s LOTS of winning.
Fully agree and fully second this proposal.
Like nuking the site from orbit, such a course is the only way to be sure we’ve excised the corruption.
Now take away their security clearances. Those should automatically expire when they leave their government job. I bet there is no certified list of ex-government employees who still have security clearances.
Where are they going? To a Soros funded NGO?
One can feel the uptick in State Dept morality, IQ, and trustworthiness. Since the left turns everything into s***, perhaps the State Dept will lose enough stink to rise into the wonderful world of actually doing useful work.
Does Trump have a Fog clearing machine?
Love when the trash takes itself out
Well, bye.
How about firing all US Attorneys.
They aretrying to save their pensions
Many don’t deserve them.
Some deserve prison.
AMEN!!
These would be the same scum who brought us the rout in Afghanistan, the war in Ukraine, dropping Saudi pressure on the Houthis, and financing the mullahs in Teheran to bring us the 10/7 attack on Israel.
It would be hard to find a bigger group of turds floating in the national punchbowl.
The ones funding Teheran are guilty of treason, should be convicted before a military tribunal, and then shot.
DITTO!!!!!
Bye Felicia!!!
Deep state welfare recipients…
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