Job Cuts Come For the State Department

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What A Day

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2025-04-25

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent part of his Thursday gilding President Donald Trump's lily, saying during an Oval Office Q&A with reporters that ‘no leader is working harder to prevent wars or end them.’ Rubio’s confident air, however, runs contrary to reports of fear and chaos reigning at the State Department under his leadership. Earlier this week, the agency released plans for a pretty sizable reorganization. They call for the elimination of hundreds of domestic positions and the axing of offices that focus on things like war crimes and global conflict. Nahal Toosi, senior foreign affairs correspondent for Politico, explains what the State Department reorganization will mean for American foreign diplomacy, and what it says about the Trump administration’s worldview. And in headlines: Trump begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP” bombing Ukraine amid ongoing peace talks, Trump asked the Supreme Court to let his administration enforce its ban on trans troops in the military after a lower court judge put it on hold, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly had Signal installed on a desktop computer at the Pentagon.
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  • It's Friday, April 25th.

  • I'm Erin Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,

  • the show that will always be by your side, like a college football girlfriend during the NFL draft.

  • On today's show, President Donald Trump pulls a popper now on Vladimir Putin.

  • And the president goes crawling back to the Supreme Court to let him enforce his hateful agenda,

  • this time over barring trans troops from the military.

  • But first.

  • Of all the leaders in the world today,

  • no leader is working harder to prevent wars or end them than President Trump is right now.

  • That's why we're talking to Iran.

  • That's why we're engaged with Ukraine and Russia.

  • It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out and to end the ones that exist already.

  • That's Secretary of State and patron saint of wincing Marco Rubio speaking to the press in the Oval Office Thursday.

  • Alongside him is President Donald Trump, who is doing what might be best described as looming.

  • Rubio's confident air, however,

  • runs contrary to reports of fear and chaos reigning at the State Department,

  • which oversees foreign diplomacy.

  • Since Trump reassumed office back in January,

  • there have been rumors of an impending, dramatic overhaul of the agency.

  • But this week, we got some actual details.