{"id":1673,"date":"2026-07-24T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:10:57","slug":"democrats-are-staffing-up-to-unwind-trumps-changes-to-the-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Are Staffing Up to Unwind Trump\u2019s Changes to the State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Andrew Crapuchettes says his employment-matching company is the \u201canti-woke jobs board.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1671\">Democrats Want a DCCC Reset After Three High-Profile Losses<\/a><\/p><p>He thinks employers should avoid any applicants using they\/them pronouns and \u201cscreen for values alignment\u201d rather than just skill. More Christians should be in government, he says.<\/p>\n<p>His firm, RedBalloon, won a no-bid $1 million contract to help the State Department recruit candidates earlier this year.<\/p><p>The State Department shed more than 20% of its staff last year as part of the Trump administration\u2019s push to slash the federal workforce. But the agency cited an \u201cunusual and compelling urgency\u201d to bring on new employees in awarding the contract to RedBalloon without any competition. The company had never before won a federal contract. Its subsidiary, Military Hire, a company that helps members of the military transition into civilian jobs, will carry out the work.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SINGH_FAMILY_NOTUS_JM060 copy.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Thune\" class=\"wp-image-1655\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      John Thune and the White House Are Openly Fighting Over the SAVE Act\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Johnson\" class=\"wp-image-1670\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b16cb8affd0ed2994e93e8d88f991fd4-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b16cb8affd0ed2994e93e8d88f991fd4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b16cb8affd0ed2994e93e8d88f991fd4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b16cb8affd0ed2994e93e8d88f991fd4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Mike Johnson is \u2018Sick of This Shit\u2019 (But Sorry He Said So)\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Sietsema headshot\" class=\"wp-image-1604\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/43ec2f9d71cf8a595de99c27350cd713-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/43ec2f9d71cf8a595de99c27350cd713-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/43ec2f9d71cf8a595de99c27350cd713-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/43ec2f9d71cf8a595de99c27350cd713.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      You Have Dining Questions. Tom Sietsema Has Answers.\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Crapuchettes\u2019 comments on \u201cCrossPolitic,\u201d a podcast with the slogan \u201cChrist over politics,\u201d were first <span><u>reported<\/u><\/span> by Mother Jones<i>. <\/i>The no-bid nature of the contract has not been previously reported.<\/p><p>On the podcast, Crapuchettes said RedBalloon was contracted as \u201cthe official recruiting arm for their foreign service officers.\u201d He suggested he was taking the department in a new direction and encouraged the podcast listeners to apply for State jobs.<\/p><p>\u201cA lot of the recruiting was focused on DEI. It was trying to get in the guy with a PhD in Black dance, rather than people who can do the best job,\u201d Crapuchettes said. \u201cI would love to see a lot of Christians applying, taking the test, doing the hard work, becoming a foreign service officer.\u201d<\/p><p>In blog posts on RedBalloon\u2019s website, Crapuchettes said applicants using nonbinary pronouns are \u201cmore likely to have unsettled emotional issues, and perhaps bring a contentiousness in demanding everyone conform to their version of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal contracts like RedBalloon\u2019s are now the subject of Democrats\u2019 new oversight initiative \u2014 one that can really only operate at full force if they win back the House majority in November.<\/p><p>Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is currently interviewing staff to investigate the cuts at State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the process for deciding which offices to dismantle and the ways to assist impacted staff.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to beef up our counsel staff so that we\u2019re ready, because I can\u2019t let folks get away with this,\u201d Meeks said in an interview with NOTUS. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to just sit back and let that happen and, when we get in charge, let that go away.\u201d<\/p><p>House Democrats told NOTUS they are already taking steps to investigate, and potentially unwind, the approach State is now taking with Crapuchettes\u2019 help.<\/p><p>\u201cThe State Department should recruit from all segments of society and hire people based on their ability to do the job rather than their religious beliefs or personal political views,\u201d Meeks said. \u201cBut the Trump administration instead is intent on corrupting and politicizing the State Department and not hiring based on merit, as the law requires, but instead favoring extreme ideologues.<\/p><p>At a press conference last week, Democratic lawmakers and former employees blasted the cuts and vowed to help terminated employees, some day, get their jobs back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an effort to try to replace merit-based employees with political hacks,\u201d Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said of the department\u2019s gutting.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1665\">Mike Johnson is \u2018Sick of This Shit\u2019 (But Sorry He Said So)<\/a><\/p><p>Meeks vowed to put laid-off State employees \u201cback where you belong,\u201d saying he would bring the subject up at every committee hearing going forward. He derided Republican leadership for allowing President Donald Trump to slash and revamp the department without additional oversight or congressional input.<\/p><p>The State Department laid off 1,350 employees last year, including 250 foreign service officers, and has shed more than 3,000 employees in total under Trump. Meeks said he\u2019s been readying his staff to be back in the majority. Last week he cosponsored the Foreign Service Test-Free Reentry Act, which would ease the process by which laid-off foreign service officers could reenter government.<\/p><p>The department has already onboarded multiple foreign service classes since the layoffs last summer.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to exercise our oversight responsibilities, and we\u2019re going to start preparing right now,\u201d Meeks said.<\/p><p>Meeks\u2019 preparations mirror those underway by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. NOTUS previously <span><u>reported<\/u><\/span> that the committee\u2019s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, is taking steps to submit subpoenas and otherwise launch investigations into the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein files, conflicts of interest within the Trump family, rollbacks at the Health and Human Services Department and potentially nefarious contract awards at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>RedBalloon\u2019s contract could face similar scrutiny.<\/p><p>Crapuchettes operates a political action committee in Idaho \u2014 where RedBalloon is based \u2014 which says its mission is to \u201ccounter the far Left\u2019s unrelenting assault on the very fabric of American values.\u201d Its priorities include securing the U.S. border that \u201cis being overrun,\u201d curbing abortion rights and preventing the influence of \u201cliberal teachers unions\u201d in schools.<\/p><p>Donald Trump Jr. has <span><u>endorsed<\/u><\/span> the company and encouraged employers to use its services.<\/p><p>A State Department official said the contract would help recruit veterans and that the department is \u201ccommitted to recruiting the strongest possible pool of applicants to represent the United States.\u201d The official did not respond to questions regarding why the contract was not bid out, nor how RedBalloon got on the department\u2019s radar.<\/p><p>\u201cThe department\u2019s recruitment strategy has been restructured to a centralized approach which focuses on the needs of the department and the workforce,\u201d the official said. \u201cThe recruiting process is aligned to attract individuals who can defend U.S. interests among the evolving issues of the world through leadership, negotiation, and by embodying American values.\u201d<\/p><p>The State Department last year scrapped its Diplomats in Residence program, which sent senior foreign service officers around the country to engage with local communities about careers in diplomacy. It also added a \u201cfidelity\u201d section to the performance-evaluation process, requiring managers to assess employees\u2019 commitment to \u201ccompletely aligning oneself and one\u2019s team to the most current [U.S. government] goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crapuchettes, when reached for comment, said his \u201cschedule is crazy right now\u201d and referred NOTUS to a spokesperson, who stressed that Military Hire\u2019s team would conduct the work. The State Department awarded the contract to Red Balloon, however, which first registered as a federal contractor in June 2025.<\/p><p>The government originally asked potential contractors to find 600 qualified applicants to take the foreign service exam, as well as 100 diplomatic security special-agent recruits. It also, despite Crapuchettes\u2019 plea for Christian applicants, requires all activities related to the contract to \u201cbe conducted in full compliance with merit-based hiring principles.\u201d<\/p><p>Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, said a more traditional contracting process may have led the State Department to receive \u201cbetter services for cheaper.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI know their name is RedBalloon, but this raises a lot of red flags as far as why they were selected and how they were selected,\u201d Amey said. \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t this be planned and why couldn\u2019t they hold a competition, and what are they doing to ensure they got fair and reasonable prices? When you buy quickly, a lot of times that leads to wasteful spending.\u201d<br\/><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1661\">Trump Expands His Ratepayer Pledge With Republican Governors, Utilities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A no-bid contract to a conservative fundraiser is raising questions about State\u2019s recruiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agencies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Are Staffing Up to Unwind Trump\u2019s Changes to the State Department - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1673\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrats Are Staffing Up to Unwind Trump\u2019s Changes to the State Department - 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