Reacting to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement on the restructuring of the State Department, ActionAid USA’s Director of Policy and Campaigns, Brandon Wu, said:
“The Trump Administration is continuing to use efficiency and streamlining as code for eliminating work that it doesn’t like. Secretary Rubio’s rant against the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor as the carrier of a leftist agenda lays the administration’s intentions bare: their decimation of the State Department is part of an unhinged crusade against perceived “woke” policies and practices, not a coherent plan for reform. The idea that any part of the State Department was supporting an ‘invasion’ of the US Southern border is similarly ludicrous. The proposed staff reductions at the State Department, when taken in conjunction with the dismantling of USAID, will hamper the diplomatic engagement with the rest of the world. This is a deeply unserious proposal that will not make the US safer or stronger.”
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