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John Cornyn: “Only 100 out of the 76,000 are [political appointees].”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator John Cornyn Questions State Department Staffing and Budget with Unnamed Official

Published | Video Starts at 04:22

How many people who work for the State Department are political appointees as opposed to career individuals? Do you know what that breakdown is? We have somewhere around 100 right now political appointees at the department. So Only 100 out of the 76,000 are [political appointees]. Trump appointees at the. That's correct. And so these are people the, the rest of them are largely career folks who've been there forever or at least for a long time. (04:22–04:27)

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Asserts that only 100 out of 76,000 State Department employees are political appointees.

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