The Week -
6 Jun 2017 07:17

President Trump has no love for the State Department, proposing to cut its budget by almost 30 percent while boosting the Pentagon's funding, and the feeling is apparently mutual. While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reportedly isolated from his cadre of career diplomats by his chief of staff, Margaret Peterlin, Trump hasn't nominated replacements for hardly any of the Obama-appointed ambassadors he ordered to resign in January, or filled a growing number of vacancies at the upper levels of...
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