The Trump administration terminated State Department employees at the Office of Global Change, a key federal agency in charge of climate policy and aid.

Marco Rubio's first step toward overhauling the State Department is drawing fierce criticisms. The secretary's second step might actually be worse.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has proposed a sweeping reorganisation of the US State Department as part of what he called an effort to reform it amid criticism from the Trump White House over the execution of US diplomacy.