Secretary of State Marco Rubio has unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department. The plans revealed Tuesday would eventually reduce staff in the U.S. by 15% while closing and consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide as part of the Trump administration’s “America First” mandate.

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the ranking member of the Senate State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, says that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s proposed overhaul of the State

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced an overhaul of the State Department’s workforce that would see the closure or consolidation of several human rights-related offices he described as part of the department’s “sprawling bureaucracy.”