The State Department should have its budget cut by 50%.
I agree. It has become an international Santa Clause.
The GOP Platform of 1952 said:
“We shall eliminate from the State Department and from every Federal office, all, wherever they may be found, who share responsibility for the needless predicaments and perils in which we find ourselves. We shall also sever from the public payroll the hordes of loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees who clutter the administration of our foreign affairs. The confusions, overlappings, and extravagance of our agencies abroad hold us up to the ridicule of peoples whose friendship we seek. “
Too bad the GOP never lived up to its own ideals.