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The State Department is firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an internal notice seen by CNN.
State Department to release letter to all employees Thursday evening informing them that it's officially moving to implement “targeted reduction in domestic workforce.”
Mass layoffs at the U.S. State Department have begun. Almost 3,000 employees will depart the agency as part of the cuts and deferred retirement, with layoffs of more than 1,100 civil service employees and nearly 250 foreign service officers,
The State Department will begin firing personnel “soon” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio implements his dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an email from a top State Department official to staff Thursday evening.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Tuesday she introduced a bill requiring congressional notification of any major layoffs at the State Department and other agencies under the panel’s jurisdiction.
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RICHARD HAASS is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, which he led from 2003 to 2023. A veteran American diplomat and national security official, Haass served in a number of senior positions at the White House and the Departments of State and Defense. From 2001 to 2003, he was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State.
A recently-created program known as the Ben Franklin Fellowship (BFF) has placed dozens of employees at President Donald Trump’s State Department, potentially paving the way to remake the bureaucracy at one of Washington’s most important institutions.