After looking at it, the general has given it very little thought as many of the policy proposals are unserious in nature – at best. Privatizing NOAA is not something that the Congressman is in support of nor will he ever be.
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Department of State
the supply of federal dollars to the WHO and other health-focused international organizations pending adjustment of their policies.
The United States must return to treating international organizations as vehicles for promoting American interests—or take steps to extract itself from those organizations.
SHAPING THE FUTURE
Development of a grand foreign policy strategy is key to the next Administration’s success, but without addressing structural and related issues of the State Department, this strategy will be at risk. The Hart-Rudman Commission called for a significant restructuring of the State Department specifically and foreign assistance programs generally, stating that funding increases could only be justified if there was greater confidence that institutions would use their funding effectively.” Sadly, the exact opposite has occurred. The State Department has metastasized in structure and resources, but neither the function of the department nor the use of taxpayer dollars has improved. The next Administration can take steps to remedy these deficiencies.
The State Department’s greatest problem is certainly not an absence of resources. As noted, the department boasts tens of thousands of employees and billions of dollars of funding—including significant amounts of discretionary funding. It also exists among a broader array of federal agencies that are duplicative, particularly when it comes to the provision of direct and indirect foreign assistance. Realistically, meaningful reform of the State Department will require significant streamlining.
Below are some key structural and operational recommendations that will be essential for the next Administration’s success, and which will lay crucial foundations for other necessary reforms.
• Develop a reorganization strategy. Despite periodic attempts by previous Administrations Gncluding the Trump Administration) to make more than cosmetic changes to the State Department, its structure has remained largely unchanged since the 20th century.”* The State Department will better serve future Administrations, regardless of party, if it were to be meaningfully streamlined. The next Administration should develop a complete hypothetical reorganization of the department—one which would tighten accountability to political leadership, reduce overhead, eliminate redundancy, waste fewer taxpayer resources, and recommend additional personnel-related changes for improvement of function.
Such reorganization could be creative, but also carefully review specific structure-related problems that have been documented over the years. This reorganization effort would necessarily assess what office closures