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president-elect donald trump is planning to immediately reorganize the State Department by moving new officials to senior positions.
A source familiar with the situation tells Fox News that the new Trump administration will immediately move new officials into key operational roles in the State Department to ensure the department is carrying out Trump’s foreign policy agenda from day one.
Typically, career State Department officials will oversee these key positions while political appointees await Senate confirmation. Trump’s team is bringing in dozens of “senior bureau officials” to ensure that career employees have Trump-aligned officials over them. The source says the transition has already identified senior bureau officials who will take over.
The source also says that this measure affects more than 20 additional key functions in the State. Reuters reported last week that Trump officials have already asked others to step aside, bringing the total to about 30 senior officials affected by the move. They include all those who work as undersecretaries and oversee key regional, policy and communications offices.
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Trump plans a restructuring of the State Department (Donald Trump 2024 Campaign)
When asked to comment, a transition team spokesperson told Fox: “It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump’s vision of putting our nation and the working men and women of America first.” “We have many flaws to correct, and that requires a team committed and focused on the same objectives.”
Trump’s transition team recently asked three senior career diplomats to resign from their roles, according to a Reuters report.
Dereck Hogan, Marcia Bernicat and Alaina Teplitz, the career diplomats who were allegedly asked to leave their duties, oversee the State Department personnel and internal coordination.
The three career diplomats named in the report have worked under Democratic and Republican administrations, Reuters noted. Unlike political appointees, diplomats do not typically resign when a president leaves office.
Throughout his political career, Trump has pursued the “deep state,” and this move could be seen as part of his efforts to fundamentally change government at the bureaucratic level.
Trump has never hidden his disdain for the government agency responsible for foreign relations, calling it “Deep State Department” during his first term, reflecting his belief that career diplomats were working to subvert his agenda.
Trump is likely to work closely with his nominee for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who, during his confirmation hearing, said state employees would need to work to achieve Trump’s “America First” agenda and pledged to do so. to make the agency “relevant again.”
“What has happened over the last 20 years under multiple administrations is that the influence of the State Department has diminished at the expense of other agencies, and also at the expense of the National Security Councils, because it takes a long time for the State Department to take measures,” Rubio said.
Rubio said that “the department’s core mission has not been well defined” in the modern federal bureaucracy and that “it is our obligation to define that.” (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“We want to make the State Department relevant again,” Rubio said. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“And so, more and more, they stop inviting you to meetings and they stop putting you in charge of things, because it takes too long to get a result.”
He said that “the department’s core mission has not been well defined” in the modern federal bureaucracy, and “it is our obligation to define it.”
“We want to make the State Department relevant again, and it should be because the State Department has a lot of talented people who are subject matter experts and who have skills in diplomacy. And it is not being fully utilized because, increasingly More, in issue after issue, we have seen the State Department sidelined because of internal inertia, because of the way the structure works. We have to be at that table when decisions are made, and the State Department has to be one. source of creative ideas and effective implementation”, he stated. aggregate.
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Representative Brian Mast, Republican of Florida, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, He told reporters that he was seeking to root out those in the state who had run so-called “woke” funding programs at the department.
“If there are people who are giving out grants that nefariously support a radical agenda, like doing drag shows abroad and trying to find this vague link and not link things to the national security interests of the United States, then they need to be aware of that we will be looking for them.” , and we will seek to create authorities to ensure that its existence does not continue in the State Department.”
