The State Department is considering eliminating the promotion of democracy from its mission statement as part of an effort to overhaul the agency, according to a Washington Post columnist.

According to an email sent to State Department employees on Friday and obtained by the Post's Josh Rogin, statements on the agency's mission, purpose and ambition do not contain language regarding the promotion of democracy.

The statements are being circulated among agency employees for comment and could be changed, according to Rogin, who writes about foreign policy and national security.

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The department's current mission statement clearly lays out its effort to "shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere."

Since taking office, Rogin writes, President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE has put less emphasis than previous presidents on promoting democracy and human rights. The president said in his inauguration speech, for example, that the U.S. does not "seek to impose our way of life on anyone."

Trump has, however, mentioned human rights and democracy promotion in Cuba. During a speech in June, Trump pointed to the communist island nation's repressive government as a reason for rolling back some of the Obama administration's policies.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Rex Wayne TillersonGary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November Kushner says 'Alice in Wonderland' describes Trump presidency: Woodward book Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention MORE has also sought to promote the president's "America first" agenda, explaining to State Department employees during a speech in May that promoting U.S. "values" sometimes "creates obstacles to our ability to advance our national security interests, our economic interests."