State Department is firing over 1,300 employees under Trump administration plan

[Hol]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The State Department is firing more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, said a senior State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters ahead of individual notices being emailed to affected employees.

Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.

“In connection with the departmental reorganization … the department is streamlining domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities,” the notice says. “Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices, and offices where considerable efficiencies may be found from centralization or consolidation of functions and responsibilities.”

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The State Department is firing over 1,300 employees in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year

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[Tall Timbers]

It's significant that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Trump to shrink the Federal employee head count. It has long been considered nearly impossible to fire Federal employees once they're beyond probationary status.

A lot of good people work for the govmint but there are many who don't do much of anything and avoid actual work to the extent possible. They leach off the system and draw a pretty nice pay check.

Both good and bad will lose their jobs, which is unfortunate. I don't believe it would be possible to filter out the bad while keeping the good because a lot of the people in the various organizations that would be in a position to know are libertards who've been moved up into higher positions because they align with deep state values (or lack of them).