Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department, long a bete noire for many US conservatives, although the outline was less drastic than drafts that have circulated -- including one of which would have virtually wiped out day-to-day diplomacy in Africa.
“The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests.”
It will be replaced by a new office of “coordination for foreign assistance and humanitarian affairs,“ which will absorb functions of the US Agency for International Development -- gutted at the start of the Trump administration with the elimination of more than 80 percent of programs.
Previous administrations from both major US parties had separate envoys in charge of religious freedom, a position now being merged.
“The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor became a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against ‘anti-woke’ leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes,“ he wrote in the piece on Substack.
The restructuring formalizes the end of a special envoy on climate, which had been a senior position under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden.
Rubio's outline also gets rid of the Office of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, whose activities have included a task force that tries to prevent atrocities overseas before they happen.
Lawmakers of the rival Democratic Party accused Rubio, a former senator, of a lack of transparency and of ceding ground to China, which has topped the United States globally in the number of diplomatic missions.
Brandon Wu of anti-poverty group ActionAid USA said that Rubio’s plan was “part of an unhinged crusade against perceived ‘woke’ policies and practices, not a coherent plan for reform.”
Under secretaries will be asked to come up with plans within 30 days to reduce personnel by 15 percent, it said, cuts that are significant but below those at a number of federal agencies.
“There will not be stories or images of people carting their belongings out of the building today,“ the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
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