According to the Washington Post[1], most of the State Department’s mid/senior management has resigned en masse.
“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”
Trump’s already running out of kids to put into office and has been scraping the ground under the bottom of the barrel for cabinet appointees. This is going to really throw a monkey wrench into the works because now US diplomacy is going to be managed by inexperienced people without the institutional memory that makes bureacracy work (and also makes it less effective).
Unfortunately, Trump appears to not be pissing off people at NSA and CIA enough. Those guys don’t just quit: they doxx you.
You’ll notice one massive federal agency Trump has not said anything negative about:
I’m not sure Trump realises the Inland Revenue actually is a branch of the civil service. To him their little “corporation tax” scheme has always been opt-in.
I hadn’t noticed before that the IRS logo appears to be an emoji face
Now you can’t un-see it
Reginald Selkirk@#2:
This is going to really throw a monkey wrench into the works because now US diplomacy is going to be managed by inexperienced people without the institutional memory that makes bureacracy work…
The Trumpistas themselves threw that monkey wrench.
And they may have sabotaged US intelligence too…
If this sort of thing continues, Trump’s going to break the government. I have no idea what that’s even going to look like. It might be funny to find out… if I lived far enough away to be guaranteed I’d be unaffected.
Mars, maybe.
Some reports say they quit, others say they were fired.
It’s hard to tell which to believe at this point, since some of the sources seem to be the same.