The State Department has spent nearly $100 million less on travel this year than last amid a wider effort to trim budgets, according to documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
From January to September 2024, the Biden administration State Department spent $306 million on foreign and domestic travel. At the same point this year, the department under President Donald Trump spent $212 million, according to documents seen by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
Some $37 million in cuts was focused on domestic travel, largely driven by a decrease in conference attendance, which made up nearly $7 million of the cuts.<\/p>\n
Site visits and consultations within the U.S. also decreased by around $14 million and domestic special mission travel was down around $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Overseas travel decreased from $206 million from January-September 2024 to $149 million.<\/p>\n
Site visits and consultations overseas were down around $12.5 million and travel for training was down around $15 million.<\/p>\n
‘The Trump Administration has consistently been on the side of the American people and the American taxpayer, and these numbers prove that,’ principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Piggot said.<\/p>\n
‘We believe in real diplomacy, not meetings for the sake of meetings.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This travel-spending decline comes amid a broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink the department\u2019s footprint and reduce overseas commitments. In April 2025, the Office of Management and Budget wrote a memo recommending the combined budget of the State Department and USAID be cut nearly in half in the upcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n
The plan would reduce the budget from about $55 billion to $28.4 billion, slash funding for humanitarian assistance and global health programs by more than 50%, and potentially shut down or significantly scale back dozens of U.S. missions abroad.<\/p>\n
And as of July, the department had initiated layoffs of over 1,300 domestic staff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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