Rubio Spearheads Massive Dept -DEPT REORGANIZATION Set to eliminate, fuse more than 300 offices

First on the fox: The new reorganization plans of the State Department will reduce or consolidate more than 300 of the offices and offices of the Agency as part of a massive review that seeks to streamline the department, according to the agency officials.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced the plans for the first time in April to restructure the agency because the department was “swollen, bureaucratic and incapable of performing its essential diplomatic mission”.

The State Department presented a warning to Congress on Thursday revealing plans for review: the biggest restructuring for the agency since the Cold War, the senior officials in the State Department told Fox News.

The agency’s review aims to cut the red tape so that the department can respond to threats faster, with a greater emphasis on the “main mission” of the United States abroad and eliminate the “bureaucratic cost” in Washington, according to Congress’s warning.

“We have too much discomfort,” said a senior state official at Fox News Digital. “We are trying to reduce the offices instead of creating -them.”

Rubio reviewing the “swollen” State Department in a broad reform

The plans of the State Department will reduce or merge existing 311 national offices, ultimately eliminating up to approximately 3,400 staff from the State Department, representing between 15% and 20% of the national count of the agency, according to officials in the State Department.

The Agency currently has about 700 offices, which means that the reorganization will reduce or join more than 40% of the offices.

“We are really dealing with a significant part of the department’s household offices and a kind of merging them, combining them, trying to make them more efficient,” said the highest official in the State Department.

The staff have not yet received notifications on the reduction of force, but they are expected to receive an update of the reductions in force until July 1.

While three offices that oversee sanctions previously existed, the review will merge all these branches to make it clear to those who report, according to the official.

However, there are some additions to the works. Plans also include adding approximately new new offices, according to State Department officials.

The new positions include an assistant assistant of democracy and western values, as well as the new immigration security offices under the Office of Population, Refugees and Migration of the Agency to address the immigration priorities of President Donald Trump.

Also, the restructuring adds a new trade of emerging threats that will address issues related to artificial intelligence, hypersonic weapons and space.

“So we are not only cutting these things,” said the senior official of the State Department. “We imagine them again to move forward on the administration’s agenda.”

The reorganization structure affects only national offices and also aims to reduce the layers of the bureaucracy in Washington to give more power to embassies abroad, according to officials in the State Department.

The State Department has national offices in all the United States, going from the east coast of Boston, to San Francisco and Honolulu. The State Department has more than 270 diplomatic places outside the United States

Proposal of the White House Eixes of the United Nations proposal, NATO funds and half of the State Department budget

Road sign showing the United States Embassy in Jerusalem. (Hillel Maeir/TPS)

The status quo made it difficult for the Department to promote politics because there were so many approval channels that had to be erased first as part of a “horizontal complaint structure”.

According to the new structure, the regional office offices that manage the bilateral relations of the United States World States will assume a greater responsibility and supervise the management of policies of almost all non -security foreign assistance, according to the warning of Congress.

“We are really changing the focus towards our embassies in the countryside, our ambassadors in the field, giving them tools … so that they can effectively implement the” first “America in the countryside”, told Fox News Digital another officer in the State Department.

Officials said that Rubio has instructed the new structure to be implemented on July 1 and that the agency was so far on a good way to achieve this.

Rubio told the legislators to the Senate’s subsequent submission that he oversees the foreign affairs of May 20 that restructuring “is not designed to paralyze the department or in no way, it is not even a cost savings effort.”

Rather, Rubio said that the change aims to “empower” regional offices and embassies. Specifically, Rubio said he receives up to 15 cables every morning from the embassies around the world, and this is where the “best innovations” originate.

Trump Admin to direct the heads of the agency to prepare for the “current large-scale reductions”, the reorganization until March 13

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies to an audience of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

“Problems and opportunities are identified in advance of some grade that works for me,” Rubio told the legislators. “We want to return to a situation or we want to reach a situation where we seize ideas and actions at the level of the embassy and through our regional offices. These are literally the first lines of North -American diplomacy. And, therefore, we have structured a State Department that can offer it.”

Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Dn.H., cautioned the reforms in April after Rubio’s initial announcement, and said that the changes “should be carefully weighed with real safety costs and North -American leadership.”

“A State Department of State and prepared for the mission advances the interests of American national security, opens new markets for American workers and companies and promotes world peace and stability,” Shaheen said in his April statement. “It remains to see how the latest administration proposals will achieve this goal.”