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Consultants costing up to $ 300 an hour were engaged as Rex Tillerson tried to revamp the State Department. With Tillerson gone, the future of the redesign is uncertain, but taxpayers have already picked up the $ 12 million tab. Politico has revealed the figures, citing documents it obtained, and said they were partly confirmed […]
AP Photo/Molly Riley Rex Tillerson, the departing State Secretary, has emerged as a potential candidate for the next University of Texas System chancellor. Tillerson is reportedly being courted for the top job at the school’s system, which oversees 14 universities and medical institutions. But other sources said no interviews were conducted yet and there were […]
Rex Tillerson is hardly the first person to be targeted in a tweet from Donald Trump, but on Tuesday morning, he became the first Cabinet official to be fired by one. It was an ignominious end to Tillerson’s 13-month stint as secretary of state, a tenure that would have been undistinguished if it weren’t so […]
State Department Under Secretary Steve Goldstein was fired after he said his boss, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was surprised by President Donald Trump’s decision to oust him. He will be replaced by Heather Nauert. Goldstein, who took the job on December 4, was fired on Tuesday, shortly after he issued a statement suggesting […]
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China’s rapidly growing influence on the African continent is worrying the US Secretary of State. He claims that its investments are detrimental, unlike Washington’s “responsible” promotion of the “rule of law.” The Chinese approach to relations with the African countries “encourages dependency” through the use of “opaque contracts, predatory loan practices, and corrupt deals that […]
Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talked to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan amid high tensions between the two NATO allies that back different sides in Syria’s civil war. “The two engaged in a productive and open conversation about a mutually beneficial way forward in the U.S.-Turkey relationship,” said a U.S. State […]
REUTERS/Miraflores Palace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested again the US could take action against Venezuela’s oil industry. Sanctioning oil would be a drastic move, and it is the latest hint by the US that it could further crack down on Venezuela. Other countries in the region have been wary of US moves, and Tillerson’s […]
Issuing an ambiguous threat to Venezuela, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the army has often been an “agent of change” in the Latin American country and beyond in cases when leadership “can no longer serve the people.” “In the history of Venezuela and South American countries, it is often times that the military […]
In an op-ed published in the New York Times, the US Secretary of State writes he is “proud” of US diplomacy and “encouraged” by the progress the Department has made under his leadership. But, should he in fact be that satisfied? Rex Tillerson took full advantage of the opportunity, describing a world in which the […]
