U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a sweeping reorganization of the State Department. The changes will include a rollback of programs focused on Africa, the climate crisis, refugees and human rights, plus cuts to U.S. foreign assistance and the elimination of a body that seeks to investigate war crimes.
At least 15% of the State Department’s U.S.-based staff will be fired.
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said: “We must make the State Department great again. In its current form, the department is bloated, bureaucratic and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition. … The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests.”
