Bipartisan senators express concerns about State Dept redesign
(WorldNews Belgium)

Two US senators on the Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to the State Department on Tuesday expressing `significant concerns` about the direction of the agency`s structural redesign effort. Sens. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, and Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, wrote to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan `to request that the Department of State reassess the assumptions guiding the reform effort, end its counterproductive hiring freeze, and strengthen America`s diplomatic capabilities.` ......