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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.A wave of Trump-demanded departures hits State Department
By MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Blacklabel
which every new administration does.
but how dare they!
deanzaZZR
Curtain call for Blink Blink. See, ya Tony! See you on the board of directors of an arms manufacturer and likely as a consultant or lobbyist for the government of Israel.
Cephus
"A wave of Trump-demanded departures hits State Department."
Make sure the door doesn't hit them!!
kurisupisu
Getting rid of dead wood!
JJE
You're fired.
That agency needs a shakeup.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Trump's incoherent foreign policy will have a lot of employees unwilling to be a part of it, but this is restricted to the State Department.
plasticmonkey
"However, it is unusual for incoming administrations to seek the resignations of officials serving in positions not nominated by the president."
JJE
Unusual doesn't mean it has never happened before now does it...
OssanAmerica
Not sure why you're so elated. Seems to me Rubio is going to be much harder Sec of State on your beloved China than Blinken was.
iknowall
Time to make the State Department great again.
bass4funk
It will all work itself out.
CigarLUV88
Snakes being fired! The government has to be cleaned up and reduced by over 50%
Eat the left
Presumably this includes people who didn't earn their positions.
Zaphod
Finally the swamp is drained, at least a bit.
theFu
Who would want to work in a department that was micro-managed and whose advice was ignored?
There are lots of people at "State" who were lifers. Whenever a new President comes, people will see that as a good time to retire. This is normal.
When a new President who will make things worse and cause thousands of firedrills over dumb things takes office, even more people will choose to leave.
Would be interesting to see the number of lifers for each President that choose to leave in January near the swearing in date. I found turnover data, but in 2019, the source decided to change how they counted, so that Trump's first term, Biden, and Trumps 2nd term couldn't be compared. The source was a conservative "think tank", so it makes sense they didn't want to show the number of high level diplomats that left - by request or by choice.