Secretary Rubio has been leading the charge to clean up the State Department’s bloated bureaucracy since he took office. He has been one of the cabinet members leading the way in implementing President Trump’s DOGE agenda by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse at the agency he leads. The most notable of these efforts was, of course, the shutdown of USAID, which many conservatives supported after DOGE revealed billions of dollars in corruption and anti-American spending at the agency. 

However, after the Trump administration won its most recent victory over the deep state with a SCOTUS ruling upholding its right to terminate federal employees, Rubio has moved on to cuts at the State Department itself. 

This has prompted many people, including some conservatives, to question whether Rubio is going too far with his cost-saving initiative. People are asking whether these cuts will ultimately harm America’s ability to conduct diplomacy effectively, and some have suggested that a brain drain in the foreign service could negatively impact important work. Let’s break down what these cuts are really about and whether these fears are........

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