Trump, Tillerson decimating US State Department -Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump and State Secretary Rex Tillerson are “decimating” the State Department as high-ranking Foreign Service officers have been pushed into retirement, Bloomberg’s editorial board writes. “Only nine out of 28 undersecretaries or assistant secretaries of state have been nominated or confirmed. Among the dozens of ambassadorships without even a nominee are those for vital partners such as Egypt, Australia Jordan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey.”