State Department Layoffs over 1,300 People

The Washington Examiner

The State Department began to lay off more than 1,300 employees on Friday, including diplomats and career civil servants, according to multiple reports.

The Trump administration was widely anticipated to trim the department, even though there have been concerns that a reduction could affect the United States’s global influence.

An email with a layoff notice went out Friday to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the U.S., a senior State Department official told the Associated Press.