On Wednesday, all of the senior managers of the US State Department quit en masse. The Washington Post reports that it’s “part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.”
“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.”
I’m sure the vacant positions will be filled by competent replacements.
