America’s State Department was seized by one political party. Here’s how to stop them

America’s State Department was seized by one political party. Here’s how to stop them. Federal workers use foreign-policy operations to push leftist causes.

The Democratic capture of the federal workforce largely explains why successive Republican administrations have found it hard to execute their policy directives. Faced with bureaucratic foot-dragging and resistance, it often takes a full four-year term to institute policies.   Max Primorac is director of The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies. He worked at the State Department from 2003-2008 and USAID from 2018 to 2021.

Federal Elections Commission data show that, during the 2019-2020 election cycle, 93% of all political contributions from U.S. State Department employees and 96% of all political contributions from U.S. Agency for International Development employees went to Democratic Party candidates or political action committees.