—The State Department’s senior management core resigned abruptly on Wednesday, according to reports, in a move that could jam the department’s cogs in the early days of the Trump administration.
Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management since the last year of the Bush presidency, left along with three of his top officials –Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond, and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, according to The Washington Post.
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