Trump won’t wait for Senate confirmation to shake up State Department: source

President-elect Donald Trump plans to immediately shake up the State Department by moving new officials into top jobs.

A source familiar with the situation told Fox News that the new Trump administration will move new officials into key positions at the State Department to ensure the department is implementing Trump’s foreign policy agenda from day one.

Normally, career officials oversee these key positions while political appointees await Senate confirmation. Trump’s team is bringing in dozens of “senior bureaucrats” to ensure their colleagues have Trump-aligned officials on their side. The source says that the top officials who will take over the transition have already been identified.

The source also said the move would affect more than 20 key roles in the state. Reuters reported last week that Trump officials had asked others to step aside, bringing the total to about 30 senior positions affected by the initiative. They include those who work as undersecretaries and oversee key regional, policy and communications offices.

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Asked for comment, a spokesperson for the transition team told Fox: “It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump’s vision of putting our country and American workers first.

Trump’s transition team recently asked three senior career diplomats to step down, according to a Reuters report.

The career diplomats Derek Hogan, Marcia Burnicat and Alana Taplits were asked to resign, overseeing Department of State Human resources and internal coordination.

All three diplomats included in the report have served under Democratic and Republican administrations, according to Reuters. Unlike political appointees, diplomats do not resign when the president leaves office.

Throughout his political career, Trump has gone after the “deep state” and this move can be seen as part of his efforts to transform government at the bureaucratic level.

During his first term in office, Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the government agency responsible for foreign relations, calling it the “deep State Department,” which employs career diplomats. It shows their belief that they are working to reverse their agenda.

During his confirmation hearing, Trump said he would work with Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio to work on Trump’s “America First” agenda and to make the agency “relevant.”

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“There have been several administrations over the last 20 years where the influence of the State Department has been reduced at the expense of other agencies and at the expense of the National Security Councils because the State Department takes too long to act,” Rubio said.

“And increasingly, they stop inviting you to meetings and they stop appointing you to things, because it takes too long to get results.”

In the modern federal bureaucracy, “the core mission of the department is not well defined” and “it is our duty to define it,” he said.

“We want the State Department to be relevant again, and the Foreign Office should have many talented people with subject matter expertise and skills in diplomacy. And it is not fully utilized because, increasingly, on. After the case, the Foreign Office We’ve seen it marginalized because of internal inefficiencies, because the way the structure works, we have to be there at the table when decisions are made, and the State Department’s creative It should be a source of ideas and effective implementation,” he added.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fala., told reporters that he is looking to root out those in the state who run “active” funding programs in the department.

“If you have people writing in blind support for radical agendas like doing drag shows overseas and trying to find this vague connection and not tying things to America’s national security interests, they need to know that we want them. And we want to create authorities so that their existence doesn’t continue in the State Department.”