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Instead of announcing the cuts in person, Mr.
Tillerson sent a nine-sentence email from Japan to his staff stating that ?U.
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But veteran diplomats said that injecting money into the Defense Department while slashing the State Department made little sense, since the functions of the two go hand-in-hand.
The Trump budget also proposes protecting programs that buy and distribute drugs fighting H.
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-AIDS and malaria.
Many educational and cultural exchange programs designed to improve the United States? image would be abolished or pared back to pay for an increase in military spending.
Efforts to overhaul the State Department arrive at Foggy Bottom about as often as a 13-year cicada, an insect that emerges from the soil on the nearby Mall to great noise and annoyance but little effect.