Kevin Rachlin, the vice president of government relations for the Nexus Project, a group dedicated to combating antisemitism, told JTA that the advance toward a potential merger marked “yet another attempt by the administration to cut government offices and roles without thinking through the ramifications or the consequences,” adding that the two offices have “fundamentally different roles.”
“Folding one office into the other does not streamline the government’s work,” Rachlin said. “It diminishes the vital and distinct importance of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues — and dishonors the survivors and communities that role was created to serve.”
Rachlin added that his group hoped that Congress “exercises its oversight authority and accurately probes into why this is happening.”
