Secretary of State Marco Rubio is eliminating his department's main bureau focused on democracy and human rights as part of a reorganization of the agency’s operations announced Tuesday.

Rubio said the moves are aimed at reducing bloat at the State Department, consolidating operations and eliminating programs the administration sees as advancing a liberal agenda. Civil rights advocates say the programs are important to promoting U.S. values of freedom and democracy.

The cuts reportedly eliminate about 17 percent of the agency’s total number of offices, with Rubio looking to further downsize the number of employees based in the U.S. by 15 percent, according to The New York Times.

The largest cut focused on the Office of the Undersecretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, which housed seven bureaus related to migration, democracy, religious freedom, criminal justice, drug trafficking and more.

It was renamed the Office of the Coordinator for Foreign Assistance........

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