The State Department’s Senior Management Team Just Resigned

President Trump has been adamant about ‘Draining the Swamp’ since he started dominating on the campaign trail. The man has his work cut out for him in the country, as his predecessor was a complete idiot… but one thing that just made his drainage a whole lot easier? Libs are pulling the plug all by themselves!

VIA| The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned en mass Wednesday.

Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in that position for almost a decade, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials, The Washington Post is reporting.

The mass resignations will make newly-confirmed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job much more difficult. Kennedy was actually in the running to be Tillerson’s number two at the State Department. He was actively involved in the transition.Then suddenly Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned with no notice. Those leaving with Kennedy include Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions.

All are career foreign service officers – not political appointees – who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

Kennedy will retire from the foreign service at the end of the month, officials said. The other officials could be given assignments elsewhere in the foreign service.

In addition, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr retired Jan. 20, and the director of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Lydia Muniz, departed the same day. That amounts to a near-complete housecleaning of all the senior officials that deal with managing the State Department, its overseas posts and its people.

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  • This is FAKE NEWS. These 4 all had their resignations accepted (so were fired) as part of the change-over to a new govt, Resignations are automatically written and handed over at that stage, to be accepted or not. So don’t make it sound like a big walkout of the Dems!

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