President Donald Trump attendsa a news conference with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the second day of the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. Omar Havana/Getty Images/File

Changes by the Trump administration have left US diplomats demoralized and less able to do their jobs, according to a scathing new report by the union representing foreign service officers.

The report, based on a survey of foreign service members, found that a vast majority of respondents — 98% — said morale had declined since January, and a third were considering leaving the foreign service early.

Twenty-five percent of the foreign service has “resigned, retired, seen their agencies dismantled, or been removed from their posts” since January, the report said, and more are considering

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