The U.S. Department of State has released a sweeping reorganization plan, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the changes will build an “America First State Department” that will bring the agency “into the 21st Century.”
“To deliver on President Trump’s America First foreign policy, we must make the State Department Great Again,” Rubio said in a statement, which was released alongside a reorganization chart on Tuesday morning. “This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies.”
This is far from the first reorganization plan centered on the State Department, which now hosts the little left of USAID. But this blueprint is starkly different from the one Rubio’s team sent to Congress late last month — featuring a shuffling of bureaus, offices, and leadership across five undersecretaries and one new, “reimagined” Office of the Coordinator of Foreign and Humanitarian Affairs.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
