State Department To Begin Mass Layoffs Of About 1,800 Employees In Coming Days

The State Department informed U.S.-based labor connected Thursday that it would soon statesman laying disconnected astir 2,000 workers aft nan caller Supreme Court determination allowing nan Trump management to move guardant pinch wide occupation cuts arsenic portion of its efforts to downsize nan national workforce.

The agency's reorganization scheme was first unveiled successful April by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to destruct functions and offices nan section considered to beryllium redundant. In February, President Donald Trump issued an executive bid directing Rubio to revamp nan overseas work to guarantee that nan president's overseas argumentation is "faithfully" implemented.

Employees affected by nan agency's "reduction successful force" would beryllium notified soon, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Michael Rigas told labor successful an email connected Thursday.

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The State Department informed U.S.-based labor that it would soon beryllium laying disconnected astir 2,000 workers. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"First and foremost, we want to convey them for their dedication and work to nan United States," Rigas said successful nan email.

"Every effort has been made to support our colleagues who are departing, including those who opted into nan Deferred Resignation Programs … On behalf of Department leadership, we widen our gratitude for your difficult activity and committedness to executing this reorganization and for your ongoing dedication to advancing U.S. nationalist interests crossed nan world," he added.

The section did not specify connected Thursday really galore group would beryllium fired, but successful its plans to Congress sent successful May, it had projected laying disconnected astir 1,800 labor of nan 18,000 estimated home workforce. Another 1,575 were estimated to person taken deferred resignations.

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The reorganization scheme was first unveiled successful April by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (JULIEN DE ROSA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The plans to Congress did not authorities really galore of these workers would beryllium from nan civilian work and really galore from nan overseas service, but it did opportunity that much than 300 of nan department's 734 bureaus and offices would beryllium streamlined, merged aliases eliminated.

Once affected unit person been notified, nan section "will participate nan last shape of its reorganization and attraction its attraction connected delivering results-driven diplomacy," Rigas said successful nan email to colleagues.

The anticipation is for nan terminations to commencement arsenic soon arsenic Friday.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters earlier connected Thursday that nan only logic location had been a hold successful implementing unit reductions is because nan courts person stepped in, arsenic she said nan wide layoffs would beryllium happening quickly.

The anticipation is for nan terminations to commencement arsenic soon arsenic Friday. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"There has been a hold – not to our interests, but because of nan courts," Bruce noted. "It's been difficult erstwhile you cognize you request to get thing done for nan use of everyone."

"When thing is excessively ample to operate, excessively bureaucratic, to really function, and to present projects, aliases action, it has to change," she said.

Reuters contributed to this report.