Overview

• The draft order, circulated among diplomats, proposes eliminating dozens of positions, bureaus, and operations, including those focused on Africa, climate, and refugees.
• It calls for closing 'non-essential' embassies in Sub-Saharan Africa and significantly reducing diplomatic operations in Canada.
• Proposed changes include reorganizing the State Department into four regional bureaus and ending the Foreign Service Officer Test, replacing it with ideological hiring criteria.
• The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance would absorb USAID’s functions, and Fulbright scholarships would be limited to national security-related fields.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly dismissed the draft as a hoax, though multiple outlets have corroborated its existence and content.