Life in Post Democracy Era: The Trump 2/Elon Dictatatorship
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My favorite Jack...especially the rye....
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It was a just like a cold but it also was secretly leaked to kill us all is quite a position to take.
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‘Bonkers crazypants’: American diplomats shaken by reports of possible cuts
U.S. diplomats were shaken and even panicked during the weekend as a document purporting to be a draft executive order that would radically reshape the State Department circulated and boosted their fears of massive job cuts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed reports of the document as “fake news,” but the jitters underscored how alarmed many are about the lengths the Trump administration will go to to reshape the State Department as part of a so-called efficiency drive.
The document calls for eliminating scores of traditional State Department offices and bureaus and overhauling how Foreign Service postings work. Among other changes, it would eliminate the regional bureau devoted to Africa and shrink the U.S. diplomatic presence in Canada.
POLITICO obtained the document and two current and one former official familiar with the matter verified the proposal has been circulated inside the department but couldn’t confirm when it was drafted, by whom, or how it pertained to the Trump administration’s final reorganization plan. The contents of the document were earlier reported by the New York Times.
A State Department spokesperson called the draft “a fake document.”
The administration is planning to announce its reorganization plans as soon as Tuesday, which could come in the form of notices to the Department, two U.S. officials said.
The speed at which the document circulated among diplomats over the weekend — real or not — speaks to how on-edge State Department officials are over the fate of their agency amid the Trump administration’s drive to drastically slash government bureaucracy.
Diplomats sharing the draft with each other said they were puzzled by the logic undergirding it. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as “bonkers crazypants.”
The diplomat added: “There’s a lot that could be reformed, but you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.”
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U.S. diplomats were shaken and even panicked during the weekend as a document purporting to be a draft executive order that would radically reshape the State Department circulated and boosted their fears of massive job cuts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed reports of the document as “fake news,” but the jitters underscored how alarmed many are about the lengths the Trump administration will go to to reshape the State Department as part of a so-called efficiency drive.
The document calls for eliminating scores of traditional State Department offices and bureaus and overhauling how Foreign Service postings work. Among other changes, it would eliminate the regional bureau devoted to Africa and shrink the U.S. diplomatic presence in Canada.
POLITICO obtained the document and two current and one former official familiar with the matter verified the proposal has been circulated inside the department but couldn’t confirm when it was drafted, by whom, or how it pertained to the Trump administration’s final reorganization plan. The contents of the document were earlier reported by the New York Times.
A State Department spokesperson called the draft “a fake document.”
The administration is planning to announce its reorganization plans as soon as Tuesday, which could come in the form of notices to the Department, two U.S. officials said.
The speed at which the document circulated among diplomats over the weekend — real or not — speaks to how on-edge State Department officials are over the fate of their agency amid the Trump administration’s drive to drastically slash government bureaucracy.
Diplomats sharing the draft with each other said they were puzzled by the logic undergirding it. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as “bonkers crazypants.”
The diplomat added: “There’s a lot that could be reformed, but you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.”
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