A group named after Benjamin Franklin is attracting scrutiny, and suspicion, as its members gain top diplomatic slots.

On April 29, I published in National Review an article on Trump administration plans for reforming the State Department--an ... equipped with old and new org charts plus official explanations ...

Rubio’s rollout was undercut by a document circulated within the State Department that proposed ... But “just moving boxes around on an org chart” doesn’t help unless it improves ...

"People are really going to care about the quality of our national security and are going to take this process seriously," ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled an overhaul of the State Department on Tuesday, with plans to reduce staff by 15% while closing and consolidating more than 100 bureaus.

according to a reorganization chart posted on the State Department website. Rubio wrote that the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor became a “platform for left-wing activists to wage ...

"We need more diplomats and experts at places like the State Department and in Commerce to work on these things," Pearl told us in a phone interview. The new State Department org chart also omits ...

The State Department’s plan seeks to eliminate various human-rights focused bureaus, according to an organization chart released to the public last week. The department is also expected to ...

Ms. Davis became the first Black woman to lead its training and personnel operations and achieve the rank of career ...

The future of that office under Rubio’s proposed reorganization of the State Department is unclear. Its name does not appear on a high-level chart about the new proposed structure. (The State ...

the State Department helped arrange a series of meetings for them. The first, on March 19, was with Starlink representatives including Ben MacWilliams, a former U.S. diplomat who leads the company ...

Even so, DHS and the State Department signed an agreement last ... In the case of Ukraine, U.S. diplomats in January urged officials in Kyiv to accept not only its citizens when they were deported ...