Skjellyfetti wrote:Hope it works out for you, Cid.
Also, cuts to security contractors at diplomatic facilities. BENGHAZI!!!!
The Trump administration is proposing a 37 percent spending cut for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to multiple reports.
U.S. officials say the suggested decrease would likely require laying off employees, including security contractors at diplomatic facilities overseas, The Associated Press said Tuesday.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... et-reports
As I've said before-
DoS gets a blanket budget. Congress does not involve itself with line items.
So when people say, "Congress cut security for the State Department"...
...they are telling you the worst kind of lie - one that depends on you being willfully ignorant, because it needs you to not do simple research in order to stick around the way it has- and these "U.S. Officials" referred to in your link are bureaucrats fighting for their money, and they are full of sh1t.
DoS asks for $200
Congress gives DoS $150
It is DoS's responsibility to allocate those funds using common sense priorities. Management at DoS is where the buck stops on this.
If we don't have enough money for diplomatic security programs, and if security is a priority then you fund DS FIRST, and then money to advocate for women's rights in Bangladesh SECOND.
Furthermore- if things truly get tight at DoS, I can name about 20 US Consulates worldwide that can be closed because they are redundant, and throwbacks to a day when diplomats could open them in places they wanted to serve
SPOILER ALERT- we have SIX consulates in France.
Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseilles, Rennes, Strasbourg, and Toulouse.
We could close three of them with zero effect on the rest of the mission. There's your money to double the number of DS agents in every single high threat post in the world AND not rely on contractors.
But keep on being ignorant, Skelly.... lefty politicians are counting on it
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