The State Department was inundated with emotions on Friday, ranging from tears to open rebellion. The Trump administration moved forward with laying off over 1,300 career officials after the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead in a recent decision. Over a thousand more had already taken voluntary deferred resignations.
SEE: State Department Letting Go of Almost 3,000 Workers
The move comes as part of a restructuring led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. That includes getting rid of various departments centered on "diversity, equity, and inclusion." I'm going to guess that includes those who gave the order to fly pride-progress flags at U.S. embassies.
In response, some flooded the lobby of the State Department to cry and "clap out" their now-former colleagues.
Other presumably remaining officials decided to move to open rebellion, posting signs in defiance of the Trump administration's directives.
It would be pretty easy to figure out whose offices those are, and if they belong to anyone who wasn't laid off, they should be laid off as well. Clearly, there are still too many officials at State who believe they have the right to run their own resistance from inside the government while getting paid taxpayer money. That's not how this works, and it's why the Trump administration has made gutting these far-left agencies such a priority.
Meanwhile, all the right people were fuming over the cuts, including former Barack Obama lackeys Susan Rice (who also worked for Joe Biden) and Michael McFaul.
If a superpower nation is reliant on a few thousand left-wing officials within a single government agency, then it's not a superpower nation. The United States is not a weak entity, hopelessly tethered to the outcomes dictated by overpaid bureaucrats. It's also notable that while Rice claims this benefits Beijing and Moscow, both just abandoned Iran, showing that for the first time in years, they fear America again. Funny how things change when you stop leaving bend-over-backwards diplomacy as the only option on the table.
Keep in mind, it was under Joe Biden, when all these people still had these jobs at State, that Russia invaded Europe and China made huge global expansions on multiple continents.
Let me make this clear. Michael McFaul, Susan Rice, and a litany of bureaucrats do not get to decide what is in America's "national interest." Voters went to the polls in 2024, and they exercised their right to change the direction of their country's foreign policy. Rubio is making good on that because the government does not exist as a jobs program for Democrats. It exists to practically serve the people in the way they choose to be served.
All these hysterical reactions show is that it was absolutely the right decision to boot these people out the door. Hopefully, we can now have a State Department that understands the chain of command and stops operating as a perpetual base of power for Democrats even when they lose elections.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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