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The Globe and Mail Published February 22, 2021 Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail We have said it ourselves and heard it from others: “I’m done.” From relationships to jobs to anything that we are getting tired of. “I’m done” indicates final, finished, no longer caring and moving on. The phrase tends to be used when we feel our efforts are not being rewarded, or even noticed. These days, for me and those I talk to, it’s usually about fatigue related to COVID-19 and its restrictions. It can feel especially defeating when we aren’t seeing a change in broad social behaviors or the cur...

True and that the reason for the delay is that there's a broader policy review intended to give the secretary more time to figure out what policies are best pursued and where the money is best sent. now lawmakers are frustrated that tillerson had singled out when he came to office countering violent extremism as a major priority. but they say his state department has yet to produce a coherent policy or strategy, and that a lack of staff to execute such programs really is compounding the problem. back to you. >> okay. thank you very much. >> you hear a lot about a hollowed out state department,...

>> mr. secretary, are you satisfied with the pace of staffing positions in the state department? >> no. i'd like it to go faster. thank you. >> a close associate of rex tillerson told the american conservative rex is just exhausted. he can't get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 36-year-old amateur. back with us now, ambassador wendy sherman. ambassador sherman, there are reports from inside your old department of people going back and visiting who worked there in the past, and they see the f...

Furniture out in the hallways, empty offices, nothing happening, phones ringing with no people there to answer them, reports of foreign ambassadors saying they can't make contact with the state department, so they're going straight to the national security adviser. what's your sense of what's happening between rex tillerson and the state department and what is apparently the freelancing of jared kushner in the white house? >> well, i don't think the freelancing of jared kushner should come as a surprise to anyone since the president anointed him as the middle east envoy and the head of almost ...