The invitations for one of the events in mid-December went out to 900 people and the invite for another went to the 180 foreign ambassadors in the US.
State Department officials are hosting a holiday reception at the State Department or Blair House, which is near the White House, almost every day over the next few weeks, two sources familiar with the planned gatherings said. President Donald Trump’s own hosting of events is causing Pompeo to feel enabled to do the same.
Living it up to the going-away party.
