President Trump is recalling more than two dozen career ambassadors and other diplomats. The chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries have been informed that their tenures would end in January. All of them had taken up their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of […]
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Trump recalls more than two dozen U.S. ambassadors, diplomats
President Trump is recalling more than two dozen career ambassadors and other diplomats. The chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries have been informed that their tenures would end in January. All of them had taken up their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Donald Trump’s second term that targeted mainly political appointees.Two State Department officials said those affected by the shake-up are not losing their foreign service jobs, but will be returning to Washington for other assignments.