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State Department seeks to centralize foreign aid, moves USAID functions under regional bureaus
Summary
Secretary Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the administration plans to reorganize the State Department so regional bureaus and embassies drive foreign policy and foreign aid decisions; he defended cuts and changes to some assistance programs and said a formal congressional notification will follow public comment.
Secretary Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the administration is reorganizing the State Department to “drive power and action in our agency to the regional bureaus and to our embassies.” He said the shift will move functional bureaus under regional leadership and push foreign-aid decisionmaking closer to embassies.
The secretary described the change as an effort to make foreign policy “holistic” and to speed decisions, saying the department previously moved too slowly because memos required many sign-offs.…
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