Posted on 07/17/2017 1:14:06 PM PDT by Oatka
The State Department is has long been compromised — State Department careerists work for the countries they are assigned to, not to America, and that’s the problem. The State Department is the problem. We need patriots and freedom lovers in state craft, not Muslim Brotherhood lackeys.
President Trump is attempting to overhaul the State Department and leave his “America First” stamp on the cumbersome bureaucracy — a move that is reportedly making former officials very nervous.
Trump’s war on the State Department
The Hill, July 2017:
President Trump is seeking to radically remodel the State Department in an unprecedented way, according to former officials from administrations of both political parties.
The administration’s efforts, which include a proposed budget cut of nearly 30 percent, a hiring freeze and a potential reshuffling of offices within the State Department, have left scores of positions unfilled, demoralizing the staff that remain.
Past GOP presidents have also sought to cut the State Department down to size, and even current employees have acknowledged bureaucratic problems at Foggy Bottom.
But some former officials describe Trump’s efforts as something unseen before — a war of sorts on the State Department that if carried out would leave it hobbling.
“My suspicion is that within the White House, particularly amongst the nationalist faction … that this seems to actually be a concerted effort to diminish the role of the State Department in U.S. foreign policy and hamper its abilities to pursue policies that would be considered overly globalist,” said Stewart Patrick, who served on the policy planning staff at the State Department in the George W. Bush administration.
“They also don’t see much use, frankly, in diplomacy,” said Patrick, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The White House, which has sought to promote an “America First” policy at home and abroad, isn’t worried about been perceived as taking unprecedented steps at the State Department.
"The president was elected to shake up Washington, not continue business as usual,” a White House official said. “He’s promised to spend more at home and less abroad, and his budget reflects that.”
At the same time, they reject the idea that diplomacy has been sidelined.
“The president has used diplomacy with China to bring unprecedented pressure on North Korea and its nuclear program. The president has used diplomacy to get NATO members to contribute more to defense,” the official said. “The idea that diplomacy has taken a backseat just does not square with reality.”
Trump is now on a trip to Paris, where he will attend the Bastille Day parade. He held a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.
The Trump administration’s efforts to remake the State Department include a March 13 executive order that set forth a branch-wide reorganization review that could result in a reshuffling or elimination of agencies and offices.
The administration is mulling a proposal that would relocate the State Department’s bureaus of Consular Affairs and Population, Refugees, and Migration to the Department of Homeland Security, according to CNN.
There is also the possibility of a merger between the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent agency that receives guidance from the secretary of State.
Trump’s budget proposes steep cuts to foreign aid, which has sparked concerns among lawmakers.
“My one sense is that the knives are out for USAID in the White House,” said Gordon Adams, a senior White House official for national security and foreign policy budgets during the Clinton administration.
Where’s the photo of them looking horrified circa election?
Marie hard et al
MAGA
Keep on winning
Fear and loathing in the DC wherever.
Probably shouldn’t tell them about the giant bats.
I bet the State Department is in a panic.
They were ground zero for the New World Order.
dang.
I wish I could afford, both financially and life-stage ish, to apply. Would love to be part of the team to make the State Department an America First agency!
I hope they have reason to be.
I hope to God it is a war on the State Department. Since 1945, the State Department has been populated largely by leftists and UN acolytes...and that is when there weren’t actually active communist agents burrowed into it.
If the State Department is uncomfortable about putting America’s interests ahead of those of foreign entities, then the State Department needs a thorough housecleaning.
The state department needs a thorough housecleaning.
“Nervous”? I hope they are terrified.”
I agree. This is long overdue.
<><> find the 6 billion missing from the S/D's contractor's fund.
<><> Hillary and Obama both dipped into the Millenial Challenge Slush Fund---
--------Hillary gave 78 million to her cronies Sid Blumenthal and ex-Amb Joe wilson (Valerie Plame's hubby)
------Obama gave Michelle 100 million to "teach Muslim girls" in Morocco (earmarked for the Obama Foundation).
<><> Huma got millions for her cousin AKA Serial Swindler.
<><> Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, a govt employee, had a tax-paid development going in Sub-Sahara Africa at the same time.
I had a prof at Georgetown in the early ‘80s (Edward Luttwak) who was at least partly serious when he proposed to our class that the President should order the Army Corps of Engineers to dig a tunnel terminating in a large cavern under Foggy Bottom, fill the cavern with explosives, back-fill the tunnel, and light off the explosives at some point when the President was nowhere near the White House, but the entire State Dept. leadership was present at Foggy Bottom. He recognized - 35+ years ago - that the DoS was an anti-American organization within our government, that in the very best case was more interested in concluding treaties and agreements than in assuring that those treaties and agreements benefited the US.
Me, I subscribe to the notion shown in an old poster, in which you see a picture of a vicious large dog in a junk yard. The wisdom imparted was: “Diplomacy - the art of saying ‘Nice, Doggie!’ until you can find a rock.” That’s about right from my POV.
ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Call President Trump—— Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TALKING POINTS: demand forensic audits of Obama/Hillary-era State Dept.
The State Department needs a thorough housecleaning.
I would bet good money that Hillary rewarded Huma, Cheryl Mills, Blumental ......anyone covering up for her...putting all these people on the State Dept payroll....prolly as no-show govt employee, and contractors. Betcha all of them are still cashing US govt checks. Still receiving classified info. Getting all the tax-paid perks they can dream up.
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DO THIS NOW --- CONTACT CONGRESS HERE---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Taxpayers demand to know if the "immunity types," and other Clinton cronies are STILL listed as State Dept employees---perhaps as contractors--are still receiving perks and privileges, classified mail and govt paychecks. ======================================
ITEM---Taxpayers demand to know who else among the Clinton cronies are cashing US govt paychecks It's an old bureaucratic trick for a politician to hand-pick people and put them on the public payroll long after you think they're gone......perhaps as State Dept "contractors."
<><> Hillary?
<><> Bill Clinton?
<><> Sid Blumenthal?
<><> John Podesta?
<><> Huma Abedin,
<><> Huma's husband?
<><> Cheryl Mills?
<><> Cheryl mills' live-in David Domenici?
<><> Chelsea Clinton?
<><> Chelsea's husband?
ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Call President Trump---- Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TALKING POINTS: taxpayers demand THE NAMES OF Obama/Hillary factotums still on the no-show govt payroll.
bttt
These days the State Department is pretty much an LGBTQ whatever frat house. Also full of useless “diversity hires”
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