BREAKING: Trump, Rubio Launch Biggest State Department Shakeup in Decades
Things are about to get a lot clearer — and a lot less anti-American — at Foggy Bottom
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by Rod D. Martin
April 22, 2025
This morning, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping reorganization of the State Department, marking the most substantial overhaul of America’s foreign policy establishment since the end of the Cold War.
A key part of President Trump’s broader DOGE reforms, this restructuring is not merely bureaucratic housekeeping. It’s a deliberate effort to reclaim foreign policy from an entrenched class of unelected officials, and to bring America’s diplomatic corps back into alignment with the constitutional structure of the Republic.
The era of freelancing, and Democrat slush funds, is over.
Rubio’s stated goal is clear: “For too long, our foreign policy has been dictated not by elected leaders but by bureaucrats who pursue their own agendas.” That’s been true for decades, across much of government. But it has had particularly pernicious effects in America’s foreign policy.
The Bureaucratic Status Quo: “Resistance”
Since the mid-20th century, and accelerating post-Cold War, the State Department has functioned increasingly as an autonomous entity, often indifferent — or directly opposed — to the policies of the elected presidents it’s required to represent. Administrations come and go, but Foggy Bottom endures, with its own priorities: globalism over sovereignty, far left social agendas over core national interests, and institutional self-preservation above all.
Nowhere has this been more blatant than the functionally autonomous USAID, which Rubio is now placing under strict State Department control (after an 83% haircut).