President-elect Donald Trump The company plans to make immediate changes to the State Department by moving new officials to senior positions.
A source familiar with the situation told Fox News that the new Trump administration will immediately move the new officials into key operational roles in… Ministry of Foreign Affairs To ensure that the Department implements Trump's foreign policy agenda from day one.
Typically, career officials at the State Department oversee these key positions while political appointees await Senate confirmation. Trump's team is bringing in dozens of “senior office officials” to ensure that career staff has officials allied with Trump. The source says that the transition process has already identified the office's senior officials who will assume responsibility.
The source also says the move affects more than 20 additional key roles at the State Department. Reuters reported last week that Trump officials have already asked others to step down, bringing the total number of positions affected by this initiative to about 30 senior positions. They include all those who serve as undersecretaries and supervise regional offices and key policy and communications offices.
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When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the transition team told Fox: “It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump's vision of putting our nation and America's working men and women first. We have too many failures to fix, and this requires a committed, focused team.” “For the same goals.”
Trump's transition team recently asked three senior diplomats to step down from their roles, according to a Reuters report.
Derek Hogan, Marcia Bernicat, and Alina Teplitz, the career diplomats who were allegedly asked to leave their roles, are overseeing… Ministry of Foreign Affairs Manpower and internal coordination.
Reuters indicated that the three diplomats mentioned in the report worked under Democratic and Republican administrations. Unlike political appointees, diplomats do not typically resign when a president leaves office.
Throughout his political career, Trump has pursued the “deep state,” and this move can be seen as part of his effort to fundamentally change government at the bureaucratic level.
Trump has never hidden his disdain for the government agency responsible for foreign relations, calling it an “agency.”Ministry of the Deep State“During his first term, reflecting his belief that career diplomats were working to undermine his agenda.
Trump will likely work alongside his nominee for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who, during his confirmation hearing, said state employees would need to work on Trump's “America First” agenda and pledged to make the agency “relevant again.”
“What has happened over the last 20 years under multiple administrations is that the influence of the State Department has declined at the expense of other agencies, as well as at the expense of the National Security Councils, because it takes so long for the State Department to take action,” Rubio said.
Rubio said that the department's “core mission has not been well defined” in the modern federal bureaucracy, and that “it is our duty to define that.” (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“We want the State Department to be relevant again,” Rubio said. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“So, increasingly, you stop getting invited to meetings, and they stop putting you in charge of things, because it takes so long to get a result.”
He said the department's “core mission is not well defined” in the modern federal bureaucracy, and “it is our job to define that.”
“We want the State Department to be relevant again, and it should be because the State Department has a large number of talented people who are subject matter experts and who have skills in diplomacy. It's not being fully utilized because, increasingly, one issue after another, “We have seen the State Department marginalized because of internal inertia, and because of the way its structure works, we have to be at that table when decisions are made, and the State Department must be a source of creative ideas and effective implementation.” He added.
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Rep. Brian Mast, Republican of Florida Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, He told reporters that he was looking to root out those in the department who ran the so-called “woke” funding programs in the department.
“If you have people writing grants that outrageously support an extremist agenda, like doing drag shows abroad and trying to find this vague connection and not connecting things to American national security interests, they should realize that we're going to be looking for them and we're going to be looking to create authorities to make sure they don't continue to exist in Ministry of Foreign Affairs”.
