Replace everyone in a State Department leadership position on day one
What the document says“No one in a leadership position on the morning of January”
The full sentence reads that no one in a leadership position on the morning of January 20 should hold that position at the end of the day. The chapter adds that this does not imply foreign service and civil service officials should be excluded from key roles, and that the main suggestion is to have as many political appointees as possible in place at the start.
What the document actually says“No one in a leadership position on the morning of January”
No one should be leading here at night who was leading that morning.
This is about the day a new president starts. The book says every leader there should be replaced. It should happen within that one day.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14410, signed June 3, 2026, places listed policy-influencing career positions in Schedule Policy/Career, where employees are excepted from adverse action procedures and can be removed for poor performance or misconduct. It changes how such officials may be removed rather than replacing anyone, names no State Department position in its readable text, and arrives nearly 17 months after the first day the chapter is writing about. The appendix listing the covered positions is printed as images in the Federal Register, so which posts it reaches cannot be read from the indexed text. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.