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TMI BlogUS State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency with reduction of staff, bureausX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... US State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency with reduction of staff, bureaus X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n's “America First” mandate. The reorganisation plan, announced by Rubio on social media and detailed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, is the latest effort by the White House to reimagine US foreign policy and scale back the size of the federal government. “We cannot win the battle for the 21st century with bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce resourc ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... es,” Rubio said in a department-wide email obtained by The AP. “That is why, under the leadership of President Trump and at my direction, I am announcing a reorganisation of the Department so it may meet the immense challenges of the 21st Century and put America First.” Plans include consolidating 734 bureaus and offices to 602 as well as transitioning 137 offices "to another location within the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Department to increase efficiency,” according to a fact sheet obtained by The AP. It is unclear if the reorganisation would be implemented through an executive order or other means. The plans come a week after The AP learned that the White House's Office of Management and Budget proposed gutting the State Department's budget by almost 50 per cent and eliminating funding the United Nations and NA ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... TO headquarters. The budget proposal was in still in a highly preliminary phase and not expected to pass muster with Congress. Ahead of the changes at the State Department, the Trump administration has slashing jobs and funding across agencies, from the Education Department to Health and Human Services. On foreign policy, it's already dismantled the US Agency for International Development and m ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... oved to defund so-called other “soft power” institutions like media outlets delivering objective news, often to authoritarian countries, including the Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Free Asia and Radio/TV Marti, which broadcasts to Cuba. (AP) GSP X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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