Posted on 06/01/2025 12:33:11 PM PDT by Twotone
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is moving quickly on President Donald Trump’s directive to overhaul the State Department and has notified Congress of plans to eliminate or consolidate more than 300 offices.
On Thursday, Rubio notified Congress of some of the plan’s particulars. The elimination or consolidation of more than 300 department offices amounts to nearly 45% of the State Department’s stateside offices, according to a document shared with The Daily Signal by a senior State Department official.
The document outlines that these bureaus will focus on energy and technology, humanitarian affairs, internal operations, foreign assistance, strategy, and security, respectively. Some offices that have authorities spread across these domains will be broken up and absorbed by other offices within the respective bureaus. Cybersecurity and defense issues and digital freedom issues, for example, will be moved out of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is moving quickly on President Donald Trump’s directive to overhaul the State Department and has notified Congress of plans to eliminate or consolidate more than 300 offices.
On Thursday, Rubio notified Congress of some of the plan’s particulars. The elimination or consolidation of more than 300 department offices amounts to nearly 45% of the State Department’s stateside offices, according to a document shared with The Daily Signal by a senior State Department official.
The document outlines that these bureaus will focus on energy and technology, humanitarian affairs, internal operations, foreign assistance, strategy, and security, respectively. Some offices that have authorities spread across these domains will be broken up and absorbed by other offices within the respective bureaus. Cybersecurity and defense issues and digital freedom issues, for example, will be moved out of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
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Rubio released a statement after transmitting the plan to Congress. “Over the past quarter century, the domestic operations of the State Department have grown exponentially, resulting in more bureaucracy, higher costs, and fewer results for the American people,” Rubio said. “Since my first day as Secretary, I have said that this Department must move at the speed of relevancy and, in April announced a broad reorganization of the Department to better achieve that goal. Today, we took the next step in that process by notifying Congress of how we plan to do that.”
“The plan submitted to Congress was the result of thoughtful and deliberative work by senior Department leadership,” Rubio’s statement continued. “We have taken into account feedback from lawmakers, bureaus, and long-serving employees. The reorganization plan will result in a more agile Department, better equipped to promote America’s interests and keep Americans safe across the world.”
As Rubio suggests in his statement, he announced the “comprehensive reorganization plan” in April, which the secretary characterized at the time as an aggressive effort to “bring the department into the 21st Century.”
Before Rubio’s time in Foggy Bottom, the State Department had nearly 750 offices. These offices often had duplicative or overlapping authorities and responsibilities. In April’s preliminary plans, the State Department was aiming to close 132 offices and consolidate 137 more. The closure or consolidation of these offices would come with massive staffing changes as well: Rubio ordered undersecretaries and other top officials to develop plans to cut their respective staffs by 15%.
With the closure and consolidation of more than 300 offices, Rubio’s reorganization overshot its April target.
Rubio’s effort looks to right size a department that has tripled in size over the last 25 years.
Rubio to Slash or Consolidate More Than 300Fixed. 😉State DepartmentCIA Offices
Kissinger wanted to get rid of one third of the foreign service.
Go Little Marco! Hurry!
I’m liking little Marco more and more.
More good news!
What would you say you do around here?
I would like to see a list of these offices’ appellations. I bet they make for an amusing read. “Center for Amazonian Tribal Democracy” “African Ethnic Reconciliation and Boundary Council” “Southeast Asian Gender Equity Office”
I bet the real names are even more nonsensical.
HERE COMES THE JUDGE.
Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank! - Scotty
Meanwhile at the FBI...
Hey, it takes a lot of staff to meddle everywhere on behalf of the World Ruling Class.
BUT WHO WILL PICK THE CROPS?
“Before Rubio’s time in Foggy Bottom, the State Department had nearly 750 offices”
Holy crap!! SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY “offices.”
They should shutter 650 at least.
In fairness, rubio was confirmed practically at the beginning whereas FBI has a month at most.
Yeah he's gone from Foam Boy to Master Flex. Still strikes me as queer but whatevs...
Rubio isn’t promoting scumbags who called J6ers and parents at school meetings, terrorists.
Believe it or not, 40 years ago The State Department had some people who believed in borders, and could explain why borders were necessary.
Sec. Rubio is in an experience for performing MAGA. He’s in position as a change maker both at home and abroad.
VP Vance is in position to inform and critique abroad, and to speak America First at home.
These two, together on a ticket make a powerful duo. (If we don’t agree to blow ourselves up, first.)
My slight concern is Rubio steeped in keeping Russia billed as communist USSR.
As if JFK did not react in identical
fashion as Russia, in our own Cuba Missile Crisis, within a single deadly issue, and absent the ancillary and equally deadly other threat-risks.
We answered the threat that was confined to a comparatively tiny geopolitical neighborhood. Not so for Russia.
Warhawks are beginning to hawk their wares.😬
Headline reads like Marco and Guns ‘n Roses 🎸
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