Posted on 04/22/2025 8:23:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Trump administration is reorganizing the State Department to eliminate offices it considers redundant and cut some programs it says do not align with U.S. interests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
"This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies," Rubio said in a statement, describing the moves as part of President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda.
"Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist," Rubio said.
Work that fell to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights, and Democracy will now be placed under a new Coordinator for Foreign Assistance and Humanitarian Affairs, he added.
Rubio, who also serves as administrator for the gutted USAID administration, criticized the department's growth over the years, calling it "bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition."
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Winning!
Rubio seems to be kicking a lot more ass than DOJ & FBI at this time.
Joseph McCarthy’s Wheeling WV speech of February 9, 1950:
“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores . . . but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this Nation.
It has not been the less fortunate, or members of minority groups who have been traitorous to this Nation, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest Nation on earth has had to offer . . . the finest homes, the finest college education and the finest jobs in government we can give.
This is glaringly true in the State Department. There the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been most traitorous. . . .”
Unfortunately, that may tell us more about where the enemy’s tunnels are, than anything else…
I’ll bet my mortgage that Pentagon’s issues will pale to what’s coming from State.
Donks have had about a decade to ruin the Pentagon, but about 60 years to stack DoS with America-last fools.
Waiting....
Yes, Rubio who is the last person in the world I would have picked for SOS is really stepping up.
Good, get’r done.
It is mind-blowing that we have the same issues today that we had in 1950.
I hope he got the go-ahead from the D.C. federal judge./s
Agreed—Bondi and Kash are running out of excuses in a hurry as every other cabinet member and agency head steps up and gets it done.
Waiting to hear that the tens-of-thousands of communist supporters who have infested the State Dept since the 1930s are gone...
Everything else is merely interesting...
This ripping-off-the-bandage period of PDJT’s second term is pretty long and chaotic. It’s going to be SO worth it in the end (I pray).
“... non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist,”
Sounds like an excellent plan!
I feel the same way. A pleasant surprise. I like the way he speaks. Softly, but hard-ass and totally serious. “Don’t eff with me!”
Lots of little fiefdoms are going down.
From then on Closet Commies infiltrated State Department, Federal and State Bureaucracies, alphabet agencies, and the DemoRat Party, completely.
That's why we have the same issues today that we had in 1950.
Excellent - thanks for posting that. We need MORE Joe McCarthys.....
95% of the denizens of Foggy Bottom need to be gotten rid of.
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