A New State Department to Meet the Challenges of a New Era (1 Viewer)

[Mycroft]

Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio​

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Today America confronts a new era of great power competition and the rise of a multipolar order with a State Department that stifles creativity, lacks accountability, and occasionally veers into outright hostility to American interests. The Department has long struggled to perform basic diplomatic functions, even as both its size and cost to the American taxpayer has ballooned over the past fifteen years. The problem is not a lack of money, or even dedicated talent, but rather a system where everything takes too much time, costs too much money, involves too many individuals, and all too often ends up failing the American people.​

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Bureaus and offices fight to be included on the approval chains for the most mundane of memos, only then to reach agreement on drafts that are bloated in length while stripped of all meaning. Motivated and creative State Department employees see their ideas watered down by turf battles until they give up, disillusioned, while the inboxes of senior officials are inundated with hundreds of requests for approval. While the talented and loyal are driven into indifference, radical ideologues and bureaucratic infighters have learned to play on this exhaustion to push through their own agendas that are often at odds with those of the President and undermine the interests of the United States.​

Rubio has a lot on his plate with trying to end the war in Ukraine and other world issues, so it's nice to see that he is now going to cut the fat and remove the leftwing agenda driven agencies within the State Department.

Here is one of them...

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An example of an out-of-control Department is the Global Engagement Center (GEC) that I shuttered last week. The office engaged with media outlets and platforms to censor speech it disagreed with, including that of the President of the United States, who its director in 2019 accused of employing “the same techniques of disinformation as the Russians.” Despite Congress voting to shutter it, the GEC simply renamed itself and continued operating as if nothing had changed.​

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Unless we confront the underlying bureaucratic culture that prevents the State Department from carrying out an effective foreign policy, while allowing offices like GEC to flourish in the shadows, nothing will change. That is why I am initiating a broad reorganization of the Department to address the steady growth of bureaucracy, duplication of functions, and capture by special interests that have crippled American Foreign Policy.​

You can read Rubio's complete statement here: https://statedept.substack.com/p/a-new-state-department-to-meet-the

 

[NuffSaid]

Pass.
Dont care what a Trump dick sucker is lying about.

 

[Mr Person]

If MAGAs actually believed the shit they say, I'd want them at my poker table.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Quoting the Trump state dept. If I quoted the Chinese or Russian state dept. would people think I was regurgitating or thinking independently. I think you all get my drift

 

[noonereal]

Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio​

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Today America confronts a new era of great power competition and the rise of a multipolar order with a State Department that stifles creativity, lacks accountability, and occasionally veers into outright hostility to American interests. The Department has long struggled to perform basic diplomatic functions, even as both its size and cost to the American taxpayer has ballooned over the past fifteen years. The problem is not a lack of money, or even dedicated talent, but rather a system where everything takes too much time, costs too much money, involves too many individuals, and all too often ends up failing the American people.​

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Bureaus and offices fight to be included on the approval chains for the most mundane of memos, only then to reach agreement on drafts that are bloated in length while stripped of all meaning. Motivated and creative State Department employees see their ideas watered down by turf battles until they give up, disillusioned, while the inboxes of senior officials are inundated with hundreds of requests for approval. While the talented and loyal are driven into indifference, radical ideologues and bureaucratic infighters have learned to play on this exhaustion to push through their own agendas that are often at odds with those of the President and undermine the interests of the United States.​

Rubio has a lot on his plate with trying to end the war in Ukraine and other world issues, so it's nice to see that he is now going to cut the fat and remove the leftwing agenda driven agencies within the State Department.

Here is one of them...

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An example of an out-of-control Department is the Global Engagement Center (GEC) that I shuttered last week. The office engaged with media outlets and platforms to censor speech it disagreed with, including that of the President of the United States, who its director in 2019 accused of employing “the same techniques of disinformation as the Russians.” Despite Congress voting to shutter it, the GEC simply renamed itself and continued operating as if nothing had changed.​

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Unless we confront the underlying bureaucratic culture that prevents the State Department from carrying out an effective foreign policy, while allowing offices like GEC to flourish in the shadows, nothing will change. That is why I am initiating a broad reorganization of the Department to address the steady growth of bureaucracy, duplication of functions, and capture by special interests that have crippled American Foreign Policy.​

You can read Rubio's complete statement here: https://statedept.substack.com/p/a-new-state-department-to-meet-the

Rotflmao!

You belive ever slant put on a despicable situation.

 

[Mycroft]

Quoting the Trump state dept. If I quoted the Chinese or Russian state dept. would people think I was regurgitating or thinking independently. I think you all get my drift

I look forward to your "Trump is a poopy-head." crying when the media starts crying about the changes to the State Department.