State Dept. Carries Out Layoffs Under Rex Tillerson
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Then immediately on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his prime officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officers confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who’ve served beneath each Republican and Democratic administrations.
The proposed cuts replicate a belief shared by many conservatives that the State Department and other government businesses have grown too giant and drifted away from their core missions. Tillerson was stunned when he arrived on the job to see how a lot …
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