Rubio Announces Hundreds Of Job Cuts, Office Closures At State Department

[Craig Nigrelli]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing plans to reorganize nan State Department. The restructuring entails cutting 700 jobs and closing 132 offices.

The Associated Press reports Rubio sent an email to unit saying, “We cannot triumph nan conflict for nan 21st period pinch bloated bureaucracy that stifles invention and misallocates scarce resources.” He went connected to authorities nan existent Department had go “more beholden to extremist governmental ideology than advancing America’s halfway nationalist interests.” 

It’s nan latest effort by nan Trump management to trim nan size of nan national authorities and trim spending. The restructuring includes reassigning duties for nan U.S. Agency for International Development, precocious dismantled by nan Department of Government Efficiency. USAID oversaw overseas assistance and was nan taxable of a tribunal conflict erstwhile nan Trump management attempted to destruct it. 

The Wall Street Journal reports nan State Department is keeping nan bureaus that woody pinch quality authorities and refugees, but  repositioning them nether a caller agency that will coordinate overseas assistance and humanitarian issues. 

The scheme calls for consolidating 734 bureaus into 602 and moving 137 different offices to a different location. The AP reports offices connected Africa affairs, migration issues and populist efforts, survived. However, nan Office of Global Women’s Issues and nan diversity, equity and inclusion push, will beryllium cut. 

While Secretary of State Rubio touts nan scheme arsenic gathering nan challenges of nan 21st period and putting America first, Daryl Grisgraber, from nan humanitarian statement Oxfam America, told nan Associated Press it creates uncertainty and will “ only make nan world a much unstable, unequal spot for america all. “ 

While nan Chairman of nan Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Jim Risch of Idaho called it a imagination to remake nan State Department for this century, nan fights coming and those that dishonesty ahead.  For much unbiased updates, download nan consecutive arrow news app