Senior U.S. envoy tries to calm fears over State Department re-design

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Source: Reuters

#POLITICS AUGUST 8, 2017 / 6:39 PM / 8 HOURS AGO

Senior U.S. envoy tries to calm fears over State Department re-design

Yeganeh Torbati
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The No. 2 U.S. diplomat on Tuesday sought to allay concerns among the State Department's rank-and-file employees over possible layoffs and perceptions of a lack of firm direction under the administration of President Donald Trump.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, formerly chief executive of Exxon Mobil and new to government, has initiated a top-to-bottom re-organization of the agency, saying it will improve diplomats' experience and help the department better meet 21st-century challenges.

"Re-design is not a synonym for layoffs," Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan was quoted as saying by two officials who listened to his remarks to around 450 employees at a town hall-style event that was closed to journalists.

Diplomats have fretted over a hiring freeze that has hampered their ability to switch jobs, the slow pace of appointments to senior positions, and a proposed 28 percent cut in State Department funding.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-diplomacy-idUSKBN1AO2LO

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1. John Sullivan is lying!

He's Tillerson's tool, because the big guy doesn't have the guts to tell his employee's that soon, most of them will be out of a job!!!


This entire administration is populated by liars...Sullivan is just another one!

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2. That sound like some business lingo bullcrap..

it will improve diplomats' experience and help the department better meet 21st-century challenge

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3. Don't believe anything the lying Trump administration says.

How can there not be a gwave of personnel layoffs with a 28% loss of State Department funding? Trump started out with a purge, gutting half of the jobs at State. Evidently he can't find any qualified ass-kissers to name as official nominees to fill those vacancies, so there are still 200 unfilled positions that require Senate confirmation.

If Trump continues Bannon's policy to deconstruct the state, nothing will remain and our system of government will look like the fumbling regimes of some tiny third world dictatorship.