State Department announces ‘comprehensive’ internal reorganization

Published April 22, 2025 2:53pm ET



The State Department announced a “comprehensive” reorganization Tuesday to cut out what Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued was stopping the department from “performing its essential diplomatic mission.”

The plan includes eliminating 132 offices and 700 positions for civil service and foreign service employees, according to the Free Press. In many instances, offices were merged to consolidate overlapping mandates, reducing the number of offices from 734 to 602, a reduction of 17%.

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