Rubio to cut positions, rights offices at US State Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : " It will be replaced by a new office of "coordination for foreign assistance and humanitarian affairs," which will absorb functions of the US Agency for International Development -- gutted at the start of the Trump administration with the elimination of more than 80 percent of programs.
52% : The new office will oversee a bureau on "democracy, human rights and religious freedom" -- a shift from the current "democracy, human rights and labor," which included advocacy of workers' rights and protections overseas.
39% : "The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America's core national interests," he said, an allusion to right-wing criticism of US democracy and human rights promotion.

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