In one of his first cabinet-level personnel decisions, the president-elect has chosen the Republican member of Congress from New York to represent the United States at the United Nations.
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State Department to cut thousands of staff, shutter more than 100 foreign offices
A 15% cut to domestic staff will result in more than 2,000 employees losing their jobs — including around 700 at the department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters