The undersecretary for management at the State Department, Tibor Nagy, stepped down on Friday after less than three months on the job, but it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone who had the inside scoop on the situation.
Nagy served in the first Trump administration and came out of retirement to take his current position.
Officials said he was returning to retirement and that doing so had always been the plan.
"Ambassador Nagy was honored to come out of retirement to help stand-up the second Trump administration, and it was always his plan to perform the duties of the Under Secretary for Management until more State Department leaders were confirmed," a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
Nagy helped oversee DOGE's actions in cutting USAID and making other changes at the State Department.
"We have long needed to examine the fundamentals of how we conduct foreign policy," Nagy wrote in the email. He also said more changes were needed to transform the department into one more "suited for the 21st century."
"While these changes can be unsettling, please continue to be receptive and supportive of these efforts," he wrote to the workforce.
Assistant Secretary of Administration José Cunningham will succeed Nagy, the email said.
The department has been embattled because of the changes to how foreign policy is conducted with the elimination of USAID.
Critics of the changes warn that eliminating so much foreign aid so quickly could make the U.S. more isolated, but some reports said that many of the aid programs were based on DEI and other principles antithetical to the values of the countries receiving aid.
Around 83% of the aid previously administered through USAID was cut, and the rest was absorbed into the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been trying to cut $1 trillion from the U.S. annual budget in order to eliminate deficit spending and get a handle on the nation's $36 trillion in debt.
The White House reported this week that Elon Musk, who has been spearheading DOGE, can only serve in that capacity for 130 days because he is not an official government employee.
As an advisor, Musk has been hard at work looking for fraud and waste wherever it can be found so that taxpayers are not being taken to the cleaners for nothing.
