Sen. Elizabeth Warren rolled out a plan to rebuild the State Department, which she said has suffered a 'toxic combination of malice and neglect'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday rolled out a plan to rebuild the State Department, which she said had suffered a "toxic combination of malice and neglect” as the Trump administration imposed hiring freezes and proposed slashing its budget.
Warren described her strategy as “diplomacy-first,” saying she hopes to ensure the State Department can rival the Pentagon, which Warren noted is nearly 40 times bigger and which she said speaks to a U.S. pattern of defaulting to military action.“Our foreign policy should not be run out of the Pentagon,” she wrote. “Under a Warren administration, it won’t be.
Warren pledges to improve the diversity and growth opportunities of the foreign service by correcting employment records for those fired or forced to resign because of their sexual identity and by recruiting at minority-serving institutions, such as historically black colleges and universities. She proposes a core professional development curriculum, expanded parental leave options and preferential postings.
The second part of the plan is rooted in changing who gets the highest-level diplomatic jobs. “For $2 million, you can become Ambassador to the United Nations,” she said of the status quo in which major campaign donors often get top diplomatic posts.
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