Something I've been watching that flies under the radar with the Russia talk is the evaporation of our diplomatic capability. Highlights:
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Why embed 21 people into the state department while leaving sub-cabinet roles, which can be filled for 300 days w/o confirmation, unfilled?
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The Acting Under Secretary of International Trade, in the Commerce Dept., was appointed to the position by Obama in June 2016.
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This means he has 1-2 months before the 300 day window closes.
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Feb 28: AP reports that State may face a 37% budget cut to fund the military.http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-budget-cuts-state-department-usaid-235505 …
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Mar 9: Tillerson ditches press on crucial Asia trip as tensions with North Korea esacalate.http://www.poynter.org/2017/bureau-chiefs-deeply-concerned-that-rex-tillerson-is-ditching-the-press-on-asia-trip/451812/ …
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We are becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, and the Trump admin is making it deliberately difficult to do diplomacy.
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Courtesy of
@justinhendrix, this bit from@maddow:https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/840028645297074176 …0:50 -
More, this from tonight. Remember, Mexico has already had to cancel some export permits.https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/839994036417093633 …
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@EmilyGorcenski@mcp_pol Jesus effing Christ. Interesting though, that we the people seem to be just fine in spite of that ...#resist -
That's just dumb luck. These unfilled jobs all have purposes in a functioning gov't but
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Could not agree more. It's deeply disturbing TBH. I can't b the only 1 who's noticed we no longer hav a State Dept.
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wrote s/t to help me track this based w/Wikipedia data, I'll have to check accuracy vs
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seeing it as % helped a ton but goodness it's true, no matter where you look there's holes in agency leadership
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