- More than 300 bureaus and offices to be reorganized or eliminated
- Agency’s domestic workforce to be reduced by 3,448
- Offices will pivot to promoting Western values and free markets
The Trump administration on Thursday formally notified Congress of its plans for a major overhaul of the State Department, which will cut thousands of jobs, refocus the agency’s human rights bureau on “Western values” and reorient the refugee bureau toward returning migrants to their countries of origin.
Eh? People become refugees because life in their countries of origin has become dangerous or unbearable. Returning them to their countries of origin only continues their misery. It’s also a violation of international treaties regarding refugees.
The shake-up comes as part of an unprecedented push by President Donald Trump to shrink the federal bureaucracy and align what remains with his “America First” priorities.
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The role of a top official for civilian security, democracy, and human rights will be eliminated, along with the offices that monitored war crimes and conflicts around the world.
A new Senate-confirmed role of under secretary for foreign assistance and humanitarian affairs will oversee the new Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which is to be reorganized to “ground the Department’s values-based diplomacy in traditional Western conceptions of core freedoms” and headed by a deputy assistant secretary for “Democracy and Western Values.”
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Within the new bureau, an Office of Free Markets and Free Labor will promote free-market principles and an Office of Natural Rights will work on what the Trump administration sees as “free speech backsliding in Europe and other developed nations.”
Rubio on Wednesday said foreign officials who the Trump administration deems to be involved in censorship will be banned from visiting the U.S.
The Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration will also be “substantially reorganized to shift focus towards supporting the Administration’s efforts to return illegal aliens to their country of origin or legal status,” the summary said.
As Reuters reported earlier this month, the refugee bureau will also take responsibility for the U.S. response to major disasters overseas.
In other words, whites only and refugees need not apply. 🙁
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/state-dept-broad-reorganization-plan-submitted-congress-2025-05-29