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State Department Cuts Reveal ‘Mindboggling’ Inefficiencies

In what officials call the largest State Department overhaul since the Cold War, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has led a sweeping reorganization that cut 3,000 positions. Of the layoffs, half through voluntary buyouts and the rest via layoffs. Fox News reported that senior officials cited “mindboggling” inefficiencies, including over 50 approval layers on paperwork, multiple overlapping offices, and a lack of basic staffing data. “It took us three months to get a list of the people that actually work in the building,” one official admitted. “It’s sort of scary as a taxpayer… Who are these people?”

Officials defended eliminating or merging over 300 offices, including several HR departments and sanction units. A “diplomats in residence” program was scrapped and dismissed as a “cushy job.” Rubio’s team insists frontline diplomacy remains untouched, with no layoffs at embassies, passport services, or country desks.

Critics, including over 130 former senior officials, warn the cuts risk U.S. diplomatic effectiveness and “cede soft power to China.” A State Department official supporting the cuts countered, “A climate change office is not countering China.”

Additionally, Fox News highlighted:

In another example, an official told of a Gulf state foreign minister who complained that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor under the Biden administration kept pushing them to unionize foreign workers.

"This created huge diplomatic tension with them," the official said. "That foreign minister was delighted and wants to work with us on shared prosperity and trade agreements that aren't trying to to be patronizing to other countries about their domestic affairs."

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