State Department to keep anti-Semitism envoy but scrap many others
Several offices that handle religious freedom issues will be consolidated.
The State Department will retain its special envoy on anti-Semitism, a position some Jewish groups feared the Trump administration would eliminate. The envoy handling HIV/AIDS issues will also be retained.
But the department plans to scrap 30 of the 66 current special envoy positions, including one that handles climate change issues.
Several offices that handle religious freedom issues will be consolidated, a department spokeswoman wrote in an email.
