Why State Department employees say Rubio is a ‘mute accessory to Trump’

More than 1300 civil and foreign service officers at the State Department were indiscriminately fired on Friday as part of the Trump administration's drastic and devastating so-called reorganization of the agency. In total, 15% of domestic staff at the department is being cut along with the dissolution or merging of more than 300 bureaus and offices. Now, this shrinking comes contrary to the hopes of many when Rubio was nominated and then unanimously confirmed by the Senate, the only Trump appointee to have ...