The Trump administration has announced it will be closing more than 130 offices around the world to overhaul the State Department, streamline operations and coordinate sectors more closely with the administration’s foreign policy goals.
The move was announced on Tuesday Secretary of State Marco Rubiosaid that regional-specific features will be integrated to enhance functionality and redundant offices will be closed. He said programs that are misaligned as America’s core national interests will also be shut down.
Rubio said State Department It was bloated, bureaucratic, unable to carry out its essential diplomatic envoy in a new era of the Great Power competition.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that offices of more than 130 agents around the world will be closing to streamline operations and align more closely with the administration’s foreign policy goals. (AP photo/Mark Sieferbein, pool)
Rubio announces closure of State Department efforts “were supposed to be dead already”
“Over the past 15 years, the segment’s footprint has skyrocketed with unprecedented growth and costs,” Rubio wrote. “But far from seeing return on investment, taxpayers have seen effective and efficient diplomacy. The vast bureaucracy has created a system that is watched by radical political ideologies rather than advancing America’s core national interests.”
Rubio wrote that the example of the out-of-control division is the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), which he closed last week.
He said the office worked with the media and platforms to censor opposition speeches, including that. President Donald Trump. The GEC has been accused of censoring them by conservatives, with 120 people on staff on a budget of about $61 million.
in spite of Congress votes to close itGEC simply changed itself and continued to act as if nothing had changed, Rubio writes.
The shakeup announcement comes days after the New York Times report outlined the State Department’s overhaul via an executive order in the leaked draft.
Proposed new State Department organization chart. (State Department)
Rubio’s plans, released Tuesday, accompanied by a State Department reorganization chart, including the closure of several embassies and consulates. Sub-Saharan Africa Reducing diplomatic operations in Canada.
Rubio’s plans include reducing the number of agency offices from 734 to 602, effectively closing 132 offices, a 17% reduction. Offices related to the promotion of human rights and democracy are one of those subject to closure.
He said that activists “even when they face a direct conflict with the goals of secretaries, presidents and American people” in order to redefine “human rights” and “democracy” and pursue projects at taxpayer’s expense.
He said the Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Bureau has become the platform for leftists to unleash Vendetta against “conflict” leaders around the world who have turned hatred towards Israel into policies such as the arms embargo.
The Department of Population, Refugees and Migration has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into international organizations and NGOs that have promoted mass migration at the borders of the world and the southern part of the country, he said.
The proposed changes also include all non-security foreign aid integrated in local departments to ensure that all departments and offices under the State Department have a clear responsibility and mission, Rubio said.
For example, if something is related to Africa, the African Affairs Bureau will handle it.
Additionally, programs that do not align with core national interests, such as specific diversity and inclusion initiatives, will be eliminated.
Rubio said the change was necessary to implement Trump’s first American foreign policy and introduce the State Department in the 21st century.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the overhaul was intended to more closely align the administration’s foreign policy goals and sectors. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Rubio’s announcement did not say whether the consulate will be closed.
Separately, even under the Secretary of the State Department, he has been instructed to present a plan to cut US personnel in individual departments by 15% within 30 days. Free Presscites senior State Department officials. Rubio shared a report on X. These include six top offices employing thousands of people, the outlet reports.
“The American people deserve the State Department, willing to promote safety, security and prosperity around the world, and respect the sacred trust in their taxes and government service,” Rubio wrote. “From this week, they’ve got it.”
