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Marco Rubio ordered U.S. diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman for official communications, undoing a previous directive from Antony Blinken.Rubio characterized Blinken's January 2023 switch to Calibri, a sans-serif font, as a "wasteful" diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiative, asserting that typography influences professional document decorum.This policy change, which aligns with the President s directive for a unified federal voice, follows broader efforts by Donald Trump to dismantle federal DEIA programs.
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