The Trump Administration continues to shrink the federal government…
According to a Fox News report, the State Department will move to lay off nearly 2,000 employees on Friday as it begins its reorganization plan.
News of the layoffs was revealed in an internal memo circulated Thursday evening by Michael Rigas, deputy secretary of management and resources.
From Fox News:
The RIF notices plus voluntary departures under the Trump administration amount to a 15% work force reduction.
“The departments, bureaus, offices and domestic operations have grown considerably over the last 25 years, and the resulting proliferation of bureaus and offices with unclear, overlapping or duplicative mandates have hobbled the department’s ability to rapidly respond to emerging threats and crises or to effectively advance America’s affirmative interests in the world,” a senior State Department official said.
The official added that there are “more than 700 domestic offices for 18,000 people.”
“A lot of this, as we said, covers redundant offices and takes some of these cross-cutting functions and moves them to the regional bureaus and to our embassies overseas, to the people who are closest to where diplomacy is happening, to empower them with the resources and authorities they need to be able to carry out the President’s foreign policy.”
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce warned on Thursday the agency would move quickly after the Supreme Court stayed the lower court’s injunction blocking the administration from implementing widescale force reductions across federal agencies.
State Department shake up roughly 1800 layoffs under re-organization plan pic.twitter.com/KoXYEEBdJh
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State Department to axe 1,800 employees https://t.co/2kOQJbsVvM
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