{"id":56027,"date":"2025-10-24T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/rubio-ditches-costly-conference-travel-slashes-nearly-100m-in-biden-era-bloat\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:54:52","slug":"rubio-ditches-costly-conference-travel-slashes-nearly-100m-in-biden-era-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/rubio-ditches-costly-conference-travel-slashes-nearly-100m-in-biden-era-bloat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio ditches costly conference travel, slashes nearly $100M in Biden-era bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX:<\/strong> The State Department has spent nearly $100 million less on travel this year than last amid a wider effort to trim budgets, according to documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

From January to September 2024, the Biden administration State Department spent $306 million on foreign and domestic travel. At the same point this year, the department under President Donald Trump<\/a> spent $212 million, according to documents seen by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Some $37 million in cuts was focused on domestic travel, largely driven by a decrease in conference attendance, which made up nearly $7 million of the cuts.<\/p>\n

Site visits and consultations within the U.S. also decreased by around $14 million and domestic special mission travel was down around $5.5 million.<\/p>\n

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SIDES WITH TRUMP TO TEMPORARILY FREEZE $5B IN FOREIGN AID SPENDING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Overseas travel decreased from $206 million from January-September 2024 to $149 million.<\/p>\n

Site visits and consultations overseas were down around $12.5 million and travel for training was down around $15 million.<\/p>\n

“The Trump Administration has consistently been on the side of the American people and the American taxpayer, and these numbers prove that,” principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Piggot said.<\/p>\n

“We believe in real diplomacy<\/a>, not meetings for the sake of meetings.”<\/p>\n

STATE DEPARTMENT BLASTS DEMS OVER SHUTDOWN, SAYS NATIONAL SECURITY AT RISK AMID SENATE BATTLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This travel-spending decline comes amid a broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink the department\u2019s footprint<\/a> and reduce overseas commitments. In April 2025, the Office of Management and Budget wrote a memo recommending the combined budget of the State Department and USAID be cut nearly in half in the upcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n

The plan would reduce the budget<\/a> from about $55 billion to $28.4 billion, slash funding for humanitarian assistance and global health programs by more than 50%, and potentially shut down or significantly scale back dozens of U.S. missions abroad.<\/p>\n

And as of July, the department had initiated layoffs of over 1,300 domestic staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department has spent nearly $100 million less on travel this year than last amid a wider effort to trim budgets, according to documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. From January to September 2024, the Biden administration State Department spent $306 million on foreign and domestic travel. At the same … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}