Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday rolled out the first stage of a major plan to reorganize the US State Department with changes that will eliminate 132 domestic offices, cut around 700 positions in Washington,

The Trump administration “will drain the bloated, bureaucratic swamp, empowering the Department from the ground up,” Rubio said. He called the department a “sprawling bureaucracy” that’s “unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission.”

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