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State Department It will move to lay off about 2,000 employees on Friday to begin reorganization plans.
An internal memo distributed Thursday evening by Michael Rigas, assistant secretary of management and resources, announced that domestic employees affected by the Power Reduction (RIF) will be notified in the “next days.”
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RIF notifications and voluntary departures below Trump administration This is equivalent to a 15% reduction in the workforce.
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State Department, Sec. Marco Rubio will move to fire around 2,000 employees. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
“Sectors, bureaus, offices and domestic operations have grown considerably over the past 25 years, and the resulting spread of bureaus and offices has hampered our ability to respond quickly to new threats and crises with unclear, overlapping or overlapping orders, or to raise America’s unfavourable attention worldwide.”
Officials added that there are “over 700 national offices for 18,000 people.”
Groups of people protest what they expect to be a major cut in the power to affect the Washington, D.C. Department of State Workers (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
“As we said, a lot of this covers redundant offices, takes some of these cross-cut functions, moves to local departments and overseas embassies, empowering the resources and authorities who can implement the president’s foreign policy to those closest to where diplomacy is taking place.”
State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce warned government agencies on Thursday I’ll move soon After the Supreme Court continued, the lower court injunction hit administrative cuts to reduce the broader forces across federal agencies.
Senior State Department officials have pledged to treat affected workers with “dignity.” (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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The senior official said there are currently no plans to close the embassy or the former post base overseas. They added that the State Department will work to protect the dignity of affected workers.
“We’re going to work to maintain the dignity of federal workers,” the official said. “We want to be sensitive to the process and make sure people have the resources they need, and make sure everyone is treated with dignity.”
