Take a Wild Guess What State Department Office Rubio Wants to Kill
Source: The New Republic
Take a Wild Guess What State Department Office Rubio Wants to Kill
Malcolm Ferguson
Tue, April 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM EDT 1 min read
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday revealed a proposal for the largest State Department employment overhaul “in decades,” which would eliminate and restructuring entire offices in the department. Lost in the shake-up: Rubio wants to killed the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, or CSO—the agency responsible for documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine
The CSO also focuses on “conflict prevention, crisis response, and stabilization activities … driving integrated, civilian-led efforts to prevent, respond to, and stabilize crises in priority states, setting conditions for long-term peace.”*
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office notes that the CSO received $336 million between 2016 and 2023.
“Nobody is really sure what they do,” a senior State Department official told The Free Press in defense of Rubio’s decision to kill the CSO. “When I ask them, they seem to not really be sure what they’re supposed to be doing. It’s an office that was created several years ago to look at Afghanistan [issues] and to avoid conflict areas. But we already have other offices within the department that do that.”
Others, like former State Department official Brett Bruen, see the move as a politically motivated cash grab.
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