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Rod D. Martin@RodDMartin · Jul 16, 2025

🚨BREAKING: State Department officials admit they didn’t know how many employees worked there. It took 3 months just…

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State Department officials couldn't account for all employees; Marco Rubio's team conducted a 3-month headcount and eliminated 3,000 positions, cutting redundant offices and programs while preserving core diplomatic functions like country desks and embassies. The thread argues this represents necessary elimination of bureaucratic bloat rather than damage to essential foreign policy operations.

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    🚨BREAKING: State Department officials admit they didn’t know how many employees worked there. It took 3 months just to get a headcount. Now 3,000 bureaucrats are gone. Here’s how Marco Rubio is gutting the Deep State—and why it's important. 🧵

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    2/ One official confessed: “It’s sort of scary as a taxpayer... Who are these people?” Dozens of HR departments. Over 700 offices. One form required 50+ clearances to sign. This is the foreign policy machine that told you it was "managing" China. And Iran.

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    3/ Rubio’s team cut: ▪️ 3 separate sanctions offices ▪️ 2 duplicate arms control offices ▪️ 60+ offices making payments ▪️ Staff getting paid to “recruit” at Georgetown with zero oversight And that's far from all. It was just the Deep State Full Employment Program.

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    4/ They didn’t touch: ✅ Country desks (China, Iran, etc.) ✅ Passport services ✅ Diplomatic security ✅ Foreign posts or embassies This wasn’t random. It was surgical. They cut the rot, not the mission.

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    5/ In one official's words: “A climate change office is not countering China.” One foreign minister thanked Rubio’s team. Because under Biden, U.S. diplomats tried to unionize their foreign workers and push LGBTQ+. That's not diplomacy. That's a Democrat slush fund.

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    6/ The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass layoffs. And Rubio’s team didn’t blink. Half took buyouts. The rest got RIF (reduction in force) notices. The Deep State is being defunded. For the first time in decades, someone followed through.

    Rod D. Martin@RodDMartin · Jul 8, 2025

    🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court just gave Trump the green light to slash the federal bureaucracy. Hundreds of thousands of Deep State jobs are now on the chopping block—and the Left is losing its mind. Here’s what just happened—and why it’s historic 🧵

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    7/ Trump is cutting the bureaucratic swamp at its root. Rubio is executing it. And for the first time in years, America’s diplomats are being told to serve America—not the globalist elite.

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