Tibor Nagy, the undersecretary for management at the State Department, has stepped down from his position after less than three months on the job.
Nagy quit on Friday after being appointed to the role by President Donald Trump in late January.
However, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone who had the inside scoop on the situation.
Nagy served in the first Trump administration and came out of retirement to take his current position.
Officials said he was returning to retirement and that doing so had always been the plan.
In a statement, a State Department spokesperson said:
“Ambassador Nagy was honored to come out of retirement to help stand-up the second Trump administration, and it was always his plan to perform the duties of the Under Secretary for Management until more State Department leaders were confirmed.”
Nagy helped oversee actions by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in gutting the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He also oversaw the implementation of other major changes at the State Department.
In a statement, Nagy said:
“We have long needed to examine the fundamentals of how we conduct foreign policy.”
He also said more changes were needed to