The State Department on Tuesday unveiled the Trump administration’s plans to reduce agency bloat.
Internal documents obtained by Free Press The State Department has announced that it will close the offices of 132 agents. This is a 17% reduction. It also reportedly reports that the office termination will eliminate 700 positions, including civil servants and foreign services employees.
“In its current form, the sector is bloated and bureaucratic, and it is unable to carry out essential diplomatic envoys in this new era of massive competition.”
The news outlet reported that the offices assigned for the closure include offices dedicated to human rights advancement, democracy abroad, and stopping extremism and war crimes.
New reforms in the state sector will consolidate by relocating 137 offices to other parts of the agency.
The plan considers termination of the agency’s Dispute and Stabilization Services Bureau. “No one is really sure,” said Rachel Corey, a spokesman for the White House Budget Office, to the Free Press.
“When I ask them, they don’t seem to be really sure what they’re doing. It’s an office created a few years ago to see Afghanistan [issues] To avoid conflict areas. But we already have other offices within the department that do that,” Corey said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly coordinating with the government’s efficiency department to restructure federal agencies.
A senior State Department official told the Free Press that the agency’s executive director has been instructed to present a plan to cut staff by 15%. The number of staff affected by the directive is unknown, but the outlet noted that the six offices employ thousands of individuals.
A second senior State Department official told the news outlet that the cuts do not require Congressional approval. Sources claimed that the US International Development Agency would “stop” by July 1st.[] exist. ”
In addition to eliminating and consolidating hundreds of offices, the State Department is opening a Post, a new threat department dedicated to surveillance of cyber threats, a second official told the Free Press.
“We are trying to streamline the organization, centralize the functions that should be centralized, and focus on the big things that support America’s first diplomacy in this area,” the official said.
Rubio told the Free Press: “In its current form, the sector is bloated and bureaucratic, and it is unable to carry out essential diplomatic envoys in this new era of massive competition,” he said.
“So today I am publishing a comprehensive reorganization plan that will bring sectors to the 21st century,” he added.
“This approach empowers departments from the ground up, from the department to the embassy,” Rubio continued. “Local-specific features will be integrated, functionalised, redundant offices will be removed, and non-status programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests.”
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under President Donald Trump’s first administration, told the news outlet that he supports an agency overhaul.
“The State Department desperately needs a serious restructuring, and there’s a lot of efficiency there,” Pompeo said.
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