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Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says
Washington Post ^ | April 14, 2025 | Adam Taylor

Posted on 04/14/2025 1:41:29 PM PDT by cgbg

An internal document reviewed by The Post targets spending on humanitarian assistance, global health and international organizations such as the U.N. and NATO...

The memo, which was reviewed by The Washington Post, says that cuts contained in an early proposal from the White House Office of Management and Budget for the next fiscal year would leave a total budget of $28.4 billion for all activities carried out by the State Department and USAID, a separate agency that the Trump administration has sought to dismantle. That represents a decline of $27 billion, or 48 percent, from funding levels approved by Congress for 2025.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamtaylor; budget; concerntrolling; cuts; fakenews; state; tds; washingtoncompost
Good start.
1 posted on 04/14/2025 1:41:29 PM PDT by cgbg
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To: cgbg

Also from the article:

“Funding for the United Nations, NATO and 20 other organizations would be ended.”


2 posted on 04/14/2025 1:42:39 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Next, the FBI needs to be cut by 85%, the DoD by 30%, etc., etc.


3 posted on 04/14/2025 1:43:15 PM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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To: cgbg

Politico article on same topic:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/trump-state-department-budget-00289269


4 posted on 04/14/2025 1:44:05 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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More details from Politico:

“For example, the National Endowment for Democracy, the East-West Center and the Asia Foundation would get zero dollars. A program known as International Narcotics Control & Law Enforcement, which had more than $1 billion in funding, would also be zeroed out.”


5 posted on 04/14/2025 1:45:04 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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The U.S. Department of State currently has approximately 80,214 employees. This includes 14,399 Foreign Service employees, 12,831 Civil Service employees, and 50,703 locally employed staff.

Needs to be cut more than half. How about 80%?


6 posted on 04/14/2025 1:45:04 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: cgbg

I can remember when Kissinger wanted to fire one third of the diplomatic corps. It was inn Marvin Kalb’s book.


7 posted on 04/14/2025 1:45:34 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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More from Politico:

“The administration is considering shuttering up to three dozen U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter, as part of these sweeping efforts to slash the diplomatic budget. This includes U.S. embassies in Southern Africa and the Sahel, consulates in Europe and several embassies in Oceania, the officials said.”


8 posted on 04/14/2025 1:45:55 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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Embassies in most countries are totally unnecessary in the electronics and communications satellite age. We no longer need in-person diplomacy.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 2:28:41 PM PDT by laconic ( )
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Agreed—and if we are done causing trouble around the world we can get rid of a lot of CIA staff in the embassy basements.


10 posted on 04/14/2025 2:33:27 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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The State Dept is probably 95% America-haters.

“Nearly half” is far from enough.


11 posted on 04/14/2025 2:36:19 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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<><>or call the White House at (202)-456-1111 or (202)-456-1414.


The bipartisan DOGE Caucus will lead govt efficiency initiatives
in the funding arm of Congress, the House of Representatives.


12 posted on 04/14/2025 2:41:57 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Agreed.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 2:46:27 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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I dont think we’re done causing trouble in the world... that’s a stretch me thinks...


14 posted on 04/14/2025 2:51:33 PM PDT by sit-rep
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What a disaster this would be for global arms dealers and Lindsey Graham-like politicians who are always on the side of wars, big & small...


15 posted on 04/14/2025 3:33:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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Good move. Those people in State are so anti-Israel demoncRATS who’ve filtered down into the bowels of State that it’ll be almost impossible to out them.


16 posted on 04/14/2025 3:35:25 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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“… shuttering up to three dozen U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world…”

But where will the CIA spooks live?


17 posted on 04/14/2025 3:36:38 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: gildafarrell

That is one issue.

The LGBT stuff is another.

“Climate change” insanity is another.

Anti-white hate/DEI propaganda is another.

I would think Chinese infiltration would be yet another.

The overall larger problem is that most State Department employees view themselves as “experts” and de facto royalty.

Firing them is the only possible way to fix that.


18 posted on 04/14/2025 3:39:12 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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Except for The War Department, I’d eliminate all federal departments and agencies that were created after 1789.


19 posted on 04/14/2025 3:59:56 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymor)
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