Rubio Announces Sweeping Reorganization of State Department

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One of the agencies, the secretary of state said, โ€˜facilitated mass migration around the world, including the invasion on our southern border.โ€™

Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a plan on Tuesday to significantly restructure the Department of State to reduce โ€œdecades of bloat.โ€

โ€œIn its current form, the (State) Department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition,โ€ Rubio said in a statement. โ€œOver the past 15 years, the Departmentโ€™s footprint has had unprecedented growth and costs have soared … but far from seeing a return on investment.โ€

An organizational chart shows Rubioโ€™s plan on how to restructure the agency and eliminate several departments.

Rubio released a longer, separate post on Substack that singled out the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights, and Democracy, which oversees the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, among others.

That umbrella group, which is sometimes called โ€œJ Family,โ€ will be put under the new Coordinator for Foreign Assistance and Humanitarian Affairs, Rubio said.

โ€œThe Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor became a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against โ€˜anti-wokeโ€™ leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes,โ€ the statement said.

The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, he said, โ€œfunneled millions of taxpayer dollars to international organizations and NGOs that facilitated mass migration around the world, including the invasion on our southern border.โ€

Rubio also provided an update on the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and the work carried out by the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by saying that transferring USAIDโ€™s duties to the aforementioned offices within the State Department would effectively undo DOGEโ€™s work.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration moved to shut down USAIDโ€™s headquarters, lay off most of its staff, and replace its director. Although lawsuits have been filed against the administration, an appeals court last month ruled that DOGE can continue to downsize the agency.

By Jack Phillips

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