Mike Pompeo took over a badly bruised State Department in late April.
Just four months into his tenure, Pompeo is earning measured praise from State Department veterans and critics of the president alike for his efforts to empower the diplomatic corps.
"Secretary Pompeo has the difficult challenge of reconciling the president's often mercurial forays into foreign policy with the need for a systematic implementation of foreign policy that maximizes U.S. influence," says Jeff Rathke, a former State Department official who now serves as president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.
Pompeo has also returned the State Department to a more traditional decision-making process, rather than the micromanagement that Tillerson preferred.
The secretary's public synchronicity with the president gives the State Department an air of credibility it never had under Tillerson.
In his first four months at Foggy Bottom, Pompeo has time and again said he wants to move the State Department to the fore of the Trump administration's foreign policy.
"We're going to get our swagger back," he said in May. "The State Department will be out in front in every corner of the world leading America's diplomatic policy, achieving great outcomes on behalf of President Trump and America."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/jenna-lifhits/pompeos-challenge-working-with-trump-while-empowering-state-department
Just four months into his tenure, Pompeo is earning measured praise from State Department veterans and critics of the president alike for his efforts to empower the diplomatic corps.
"Secretary Pompeo has the difficult challenge of reconciling the president's often mercurial forays into foreign policy with the need for a systematic implementation of foreign policy that maximizes U.S. influence," says Jeff Rathke, a former State Department official who now serves as president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.
Pompeo has also returned the State Department to a more traditional decision-making process, rather than the micromanagement that Tillerson preferred.
The secretary's public synchronicity with the president gives the State Department an air of credibility it never had under Tillerson.
In his first four months at Foggy Bottom, Pompeo has time and again said he wants to move the State Department to the fore of the Trump administration's foreign policy.
"We're going to get our swagger back," he said in May. "The State Department will be out in front in every corner of the world leading America's diplomatic policy, achieving great outcomes on behalf of President Trump and America."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/jenna-lifhits/pompeos-challenge-working-with-trump-while-empowering-state-department
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