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6. Department of State · Minor

Institute regular strategy meetings and trainings for political appointees

Not started

173 6. Department of State

“The Secretary of State should use his or her office and its resources to ensure regular coordination among all political appointees, which should take the form of strategy meetings, trainings, and other events.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Searched; nothing found. This is an internal management practice with no public instrument, and the cluster A negative search in the chapter log (Federal Register full-text, whitehouse.gov presidential actions, 2,313 State press releases 2025-2026 enumerated from the Department's own sitemaps, and the Foreign Affairs Manual) turned up no coordination program, strategy-meeting series or training for political appointees. 1 FAM, which is where a standing Department program would be codified, has no such provision. Re-checked 2026-09-06 against the FY 2027 Congressional Budget Justification Appendix 1: its training lines are Foreign Service Institute and National Foreign Affairs Training Center investments whose stated audience is "Foreign and Civil Service employees", and it describes no coordination program, strategy-meeting series or training for political appointees.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Category note: an ask that cannot be verified by its nature. A regular internal meeting would leave no allowlisted trace even if it happens weekly. The not started stamp here records a completed negative search, not an inference that nothing occurs.
  • Instruments checked and empty: the Foreign Affairs Manual (fam.state.gov), 1 FAM (Department organization) and 3 FAM (personnel); the Department’s press index for 2025-2026; the Federal Register.
Action
create
Object
Coordination program for State Department political appointees
ID
464