Posted on 04/24/2025 5:23:17 PM PDT by Twotone
State Dept. to close woke programs.
The Department of State revealed on Tuesday the Trump administration’s plans to slash the agency’s bloat.
Internal documents obtained by the Free Press revealed that the State Department will close 132 agency offices — a 17% reduction. The office terminations also reportedly involve eliminating 700 positions, including civil service and foreign service employees.
The news outlet reported that the offices earmarked for closure include those dedicated to advancing human rights, democracy overseas, and thwarting extremism and war crimes.
The State Departmen's new shake-up will consolidate 137 offices by transferring them to other parts of the agency.
The plans consider terminating the agency’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Rachel Cauley, a White House budget office spokesperson, told the Free Press that “nobody is really sure what” the office does.
“When I ask them, they seem to not really be sure what they’re supposed to be doing. It’s an office that was created several years ago to look at Afghanistan [issues] and to avoid conflict areas. But we already have other offices within the department that do that,” Cauley said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly coordinating with the Department of Government Efficiency to restructure the federal agency.
A senior State Department official told the Free Press that the agency’s undersecretaries have also been instructed to present plans to reduce their staff by 15%. While it is unclear how many staffers will be impacted by the directive, the outlet noted that six of the offices employ thousands of individuals.
A second senior State Department official told the news outlet that the cuts will not require Congress’ approval. The source claimed that by July 1, the U.S. Agency for International Development would “cease[] to exist.”
In addition to eliminating and consolidating hundreds of offices, the State Department is opening a post, the Bureau of Emerging Threats, dedicated to monitoring cyber threats, the second official told the Free Press.
“We’re trying to streamline the organization, to centralize functions that should be centralized, and to focus on the big things that support our America First diplomacy out in the field,” the official said.
Rubio told the Free Press, “In its current form, the department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition.”
“That is why today I am announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan that will bring the department into the 21st century,” he added.
“This approach will empower the department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies,” Rubio continued. “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.”
Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state under President Donald Trump’s first administration, told the news outlet that he supports overhauling the agency.
“The State Department is desperately in need of significant reorganization, and there’s much efficiency that can be gained there,” Pompeo said.
Funny. State can fire a ton of people but the FBI can’t.
“ thwarting extremism ”.
IIRC some of the “extremists” were Catholics attending the Latin mass or parents at school board meetings.
Heart of the deep state, with their alphabet agency overlords, hidden special access programs and endless unaccountable USAID dollars to throw around.
Burn it down and salt the ground so that nothing ever grows on it again.
YAY111...It’s a start
Rubino’s performance has been a pleasant surprise.
Awesome!
Good to see at least one of the appointees earning their bread...
“Burn it down and salt the ground so that nothing ever grows on it again.”
Good idea for the judicial branch except for Alito and Thomas.
Yes. Rubio has been an asset to the Country so far.
(Waits patiently for a federal judge to rule that Rubio can’t do that, and must rehire those people and reopen those offices).
Rubio: “I am announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan to bring the State Dept
into the 21st century to empower the dept from the ground up, from bureaus to embassies.”
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Pompeo supports the downsizing? If so, why didn’t he do it when he was Secretary of State?
Well, there’s the Office of Sabotaging Trump (OST), the Office of Obsessively Hating on Israel(OOHI), the Office of Endless War Perpetuation(OEWP), and the Office of Sucking Up to China (OSUC). What were the other 129 offices called?
Dept of State is and has been a bloated anti American outfit for decades.
Like most of the bloated worthless federal gub mint it should face massive reductions in force.
You made my point well didnt you? Why aren’t these 132 offices (out of 730) listed or otherwise mentioned? Was it just too much trouble to maybe list the top 40 most consequential offices closed? If it was your job to do this and you were turning in a report to publish to the media, would you not list every one of them and why? Hmmmm?
...State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said at the time that those plans weren’t “final” and added Tuesday that no one was “being fired today”...
Hoping that Trump gave the Marines on embassy duty orders to watch these deep state snakes engaged in criminal activities and turn them in for prosecution.
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