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Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists he is streamlining a bloated department, but critics warn the cost to America’s ...
The cuts made good on one part of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s pledge to overhaul Foggy Bottom and root out what he ...
The layoffs will affect 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with assignments in the United States, according to a senior department official.
The State Department fired personnel and consolidated offices that help craft the U.S. diplomatic response to China’s ...
The State Department is firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an ...
Once an advocate of US soft power, the secretary of state has embraced Maga values from isolationism to impatience with ...
At the State Department last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio released plans to cut bureaus and staff focused on human rights. In addition to gutting USAID, Rubio also described plans to cut ...
Interviews with more than 60 people detail a frenetic, arbitrary process underpinning the Trump administration’s far-reaching ...
The State Department under his direction has now evaluated more than 9,100 grants. ... Rubio’s grant reform is happening at the same time as the Trump administration has achieved a bevy of ...
On May 1 st, I commented here on Secretary of State Rubio’s plans for State Department reform. Now he has announced one additional step that’s very sensible, and there is talk of another step ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development ...
In a Feb. 5 Fox News interview, Rubio said USAID may be consolidated directly into the State Department. "The goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination," he said.