US diplomats were shaken and even panicked over the weekend as a document that is supposed to be a project of an enforcement order that will radically reshape the distribution of the State Department and increase their fears from massive redundancies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected the document reports as “fake news”, but the vibrations emphasized how disturbing the many of the Trump administration would go to reshape the State Department as part of the so -called efficiency.
The document calls for the removal of dozens of traditional offices of the State Department and Burets and a review of how publications in foreign services work. Among other changes, this will eliminate the Regional Bureau dedicated to Africa and will shrink the US diplomatic presence in Canada.
Politico received the document and two current and one former employee familiar with the question confirmed that the proposal was distributed inside the department, but cannot confirm when it was prepared, from whom or how it relates to the final plan for the reorganization of the Trump administration.
A spokesman for the State Department called the “fake document” project.
The administration plans to announce its plans for reorganization immediately after Tuesday, which can come in the form of notifications in the department, two US officials said.
The speed at which the document has spread to diplomats over the weekend-re-talk or non-talk on how the State Department employees are above the fate of their agency amid the pursuit of the Trump administration for drastic cutting of government bureaucracy.
Diplomats sharing the project with each other said they were puzzled by the logic subjected to it. An American diplomat described the Politico project as “chopped bonkers”.
The diplomat added: “There are many things that could be reformed, but you can give endless monkeys endless typewriters and they would come up with something better than that.”
There are signs that the document is not the final plan for the State Department. It does not follow the standard format of an executive order, even by President Donald Trump.
Many would violate or undermine the laws that authorize the State Department’s operations and are also not logistically compatible with other communications sent to the congress by the administration, detailed other repairs, such as what he plans to do with the residues from the US Agency for International Development.
Trump and his administration have made their intentions for the State Department. Politico announced last week that the administration was weighing the congress to reduce the State Department and the USAID budgets by almost half to $ 28.4 billion.
The document calls for the removal of regional offices in the department and replacing them with four new diplomatic “Corps” of Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Indo-Thry.
Some of the most stricken shifts outlined in the alleged order address the US approach Africa. According to the changes proposed therein, much of the work of the State Department in the region will be canceled in the White House and all “non -essential embassies and consulates in Africa of Subsahara” will be closed by October 1, 2025. A special envoy for African issues directly to the National Security Council will replace the African Bureau of the Bureau of African Bureau.
The plan will also see that the United States has significantly reduced the number of diplomats dedicated to the management of US relations with Canada, including through operations to reduce the scale of the US Embassy in Otawa with a specialized team of less than 20 to work with the best diplomat there.
Both moves have the potential to raise routine services for Americans abroad in these places, such as helping passengers with lost passports or registering births, but the plan does not mention how he would handle it.
The alleged order will fully remove the policy planning bureau, a traditional center of power in the state departments of both Republicans and Democrats, as well as the Bureau of Operations for Conflict Stability and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.