Rebuild the State Department.

Rebuild the State Department

The page lists rebuilding the State Department as part of foreign policy and ending endless wars.

Plans | Elizabeth Warren
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I’m rolling out my plan to rebuild the State Department.

Warren promises to rebuild the State Department and restore American diplomacy.

Rebuild the State Department | Elizabeth Warren
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The plan says it was originally released during Warren's presidential campaign and frames the actions as presidential: under a Warren administration, she would double the Foreign Service and act as president.

The promise was an executive-branch presidential plan, not a Senate-only pledge.

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Rebuild the State Department | Elizabeth Warren
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PBS/AP reported that Warren dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race on March 5, 2020, after failing to win a Super Tuesday state.

Because Warren did not become president, she never had the 2021-2025 presidential term needed to carry out the plan as written.

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WATCH: Elizabeth Warren drops out of the 2020 presidential race
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Congress.gov records S.1605 becoming Public Law 117-81 and notes State Department provisions, including an Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and embassy design limits.

Some State Department authorization and management provisions became law after the campaign, so the policy area saw limited partial action, but not Warren's broad presidential rebuild.

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S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
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The Senate agreed to concur in the House amendment to S.1605, 88-11; the roll call lists Warren as voting Nay.

Warren did not vote for the enacted NDAA vehicle that contained the later State Department authorization provisions.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 117th Congress, Vote 499
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Warren's Senate office announced a bill requiring nominees for State, Defense, Treasury, and intelligence posts to disclose foreign government work and compensation.

This was concrete later action on nominee integrity, a narrow piece related to professionalizing national security appointments, but it did not rebuild the State Department.

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Warren, Kim Unveil Bill to Require Presidential Nominees to Disclose Past Work for Foreign Governments
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CRS reported FY2025 diplomatic security funding equaled the FY2024 non-emergency level and was 1.1 percent below the Biden Administration request.

Available appropriations evidence does not show the kind of major expansion implied by doubling the Foreign Service or broadly rebuilding State.

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Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2025 Budget and Appropriations
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