'Sweeping Changes': State Dept Shuttering More Than 130 Offices, Slashing Staff

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America's core national interests will cease to exist.
59% : Under @POTUS' leadership and at my direction, we are reversing decades of bloat and bureaucracy at the State Department," Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on social media.
56% : Trump's Department of Government Efficiency project, which is influenced by senior adviser Elon Musk, has targeted numerous government agencies, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the Department of Defense, among others.
48% : "The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America's core national interests.
48% : "The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America's core national interests.

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