Source: International Business Times
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department AFP President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the organization had become "bloated" and ineffective. Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department, long a bete noire for many US conservatives, although the outline was less drastic than several drafts that have circulated -- including one of which would have virtually wiped out day-to-day diplomacy in Africa. "In its current form, the Department is bloated, bureaucratic and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great-power competition," Rubio said in a statement, referring to US rivalry with China.
