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Appointed under Biden administration/Trump dismisses more than 20 US ambassadors

2025-12-22 20:44:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Appointed under Biden administration/Trump dismisses more than 20 US ambassadors

The Trump administration is pulling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial posts and other senior embassy positions. The move comes as part of efforts to reshape the U.S. diplomatic presence abroad with personnel seen as fully supporting President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.

Mission chiefs in at least 29 countries were informed last week that their mandates would end in January, according to two State Department officials.

All of them had taken their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Trump's second term that targeted mostly political appointees. That changed on Wednesday when they began receiving notices from officials in Washington about their departures.

Ambassadors typically stay in their posts for three to four years. Officials said those affected by the changes would not lose their foreign service jobs but would return to Washington for other assignments if they wished to take them.

The State Department declined to comment on the specific numbers or ambassadors affected, but defended the changes, calling them a standard process in any administration.

He noted that an ambassador is a personal representative of the president and it is the president's right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the "America First" agenda. /CNA





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