One of many businesses, the secretary of state mentioned, ‘facilitated mass migration around the globe, together with the invasion on our southern border.’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a plan on Tuesday to considerably restructure the Division of State to cut back “a long time of bloat.”
“The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor grew to become a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas in opposition to ‘anti-woke’ leaders in nations reminiscent of Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to remodel their hatred of Israel into concrete insurance policies reminiscent of arms embargoes,” the assertion mentioned.
The Bureau of Inhabitants, Refugees, and Migration, he mentioned, “funneled thousands and thousands of taxpayer {dollars} to worldwide organizations and NGOs that facilitated mass migration around the globe, together with the invasion on our southern border.”
Rubio additionally offered an replace on the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, or USAID, and the work carried out by the Elon Musk-run Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) by saying that transferring USAID’s duties to the aforementioned places of work throughout the State Division would successfully undo DOGE’s work.
Extra broadly, throughout the State Division, “redundant places of work may even be eliminated, and non-statutory applications misaligned with America’s core nationwide pursuits will stop to exist,” he mentioned. “All non-security overseas help will probably be consolidated in regional bureaus charged with implementing U.S. overseas coverage in particular geographic areas.”
Rubio additionally offered one other instance of what he mentioned was a State Division workplace that allegedly operated in a rogue method. The previous International Engagement Middle, which was closed down this previous week, had allegedly “engaged with media retailers and platforms to censor speech it disagreed with, together with that of the President of america,” Rubio mentioned, including that the company additionally tried to avoid efforts by Congress to shut it.
Undersecretaries within the State Division had been instructed to offer a plan inside 30 days on how you can scale back staffing inside their departments by 15 %, the Rubio-endorsed publish mentioned.
The Epoch Occasions contacted the State Division for touch upon Tuesday.