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TRUMP EO to reshape Foreign Relations and its workforce [1]

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Date: 2025-02-12

The Trump Administration just released a new Executive Order (EO) titled “One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations.” The purpose of this EO is to take complete control of the US Foreign Relations and the workforce. This is the White House completely taking over foreign relations and restructuring the workforce. I have posted the critical portions of the EO below for easy review.

Here are some selected passages that should give any American pause:

As the principal steward of the President’s foreign policy, the Secretary must maintain an exceptional workforce of patriots to implement this policy effectively.

Failure to faithfully implement the President’s policy is grounds for professional discipline, including separation.

The personnel procedures of executive departments and agencies (agencies) charged with implementing the President’s foreign policy must therefore provide an effective and efficient means for ensuring that officers and employees faithfully implement the President’s policies.

The Secretary shall, consistent with applicable law, reform the Foreign Service and the administration of foreign relations to ensure faithful and effective implementation of the President’s foreign policy agenda.

the Secretary shall, consistent with applicable law, revise or replace the Foreign Affairs Manual and direct subordinate agencies to remove, amend, or replace any handbooks, procedures, or guidance.

This is nothing short of a complete re-envisioning of the foreign service and, if left to stand, it will be used to cull the ranks of the professional foreign service officers and career civil servants in both the State Department and the US Agency for International Development. It becomes a framework for removing employees using vaguely worded “conduct” that runs afoul of the President’s policy wished or if deemed to not fully implement any given policy. It mentions nothing of the union protections and the laws that exist to protect foreign service officers and State/USAID career civil servants from undue political influence. One wonders what horrible deeds they will dream up to jettison career employees? Did you donate to a Democratic candidate? Did you post something that is deemed anti-Trump? Deemed insufficiently patriotic?! We will probably soon find out! It give sole discretion to the Secretary of State to determine any disciplinary actions including termination,

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