Tillerson’s State Overhaul Faces Mutiny as USAID Weighs Role
- Agency frustrated with pace of changes Tillerson wants to make
- Senator Corker says changes won’t turn out to be ‘monumental’
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The agency in charge of U.S. foreign aid has put Rex Tillerson on notice about rising frustration over his State Department redesign, the most visible sign yet of the confusion surrounding his bid to reshape American diplomacy.
“Per direction from the Front Office, we are suspending all USAID involvement in the Joint Redesign as of Monday, January 22nd,” Jim Richardson, the redesign chief at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in a Jan. 19 email to senior staff obtained by Bloomberg News. “You should not work on any Joint Redesign activities.”