State Department Letting Go Almost 3,000 Workers –

On Friday, the State Department is predicted to lay off or settle for the voluntary resignation of practically 3,000 workers, in a transfer that, all instructed, is meant to consequence in a 15 p.c discount in the State Department’s workforce.

“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 mentioned.

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.”

As reported by my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, State Department workers had already been notified of the approaching reductions:

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Jennifer writes:

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States cleared the best way for the Trump administration to enact the employment freezes and firings it had deliberate through the DOGE cuts. A decrease court had stayed the administration from transferring ahead with these actions, and SCOTUS overrode that court’s determination. 

And, finally, RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree obtained an image of the precise memorandum saying the layoffs:

🚨🚨#BREAKING: State Department layoffs are happening this morning.

The discount in drive will quantity to 3,000 whole workers, according to an inner State Department communication obtained by @RCPolitics RealClearPolitics and connected below.

That’s 1,107 civil… pic.twitter.com/gGtRDYOGcA

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 11, 2025

The post continues:

That’s 1,107 civil servants and 246 Foreign Service workers, coupled with practically 1,000 who beforehand opted for voluntary deferred resignations.

All instructed, that’s 3,000 fewer federal employees. It’s a tiny portion of the federal workforce, which according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, stands at  2,289,472 federal civilian workers as of July 1st. So, this layoff of 3,000 quantities to 0.13 p.c of the federal workforce.

Well, we will suppose it is a begin.

Most people who have labored in the non-public sector have been through one thing like this. When a company is struggling, when the stability sheet is in the crimson, it is not at all unusual to begin cutting workforce, and generally, yes, the remaining people have to decide up the slack. The federal authorities is no totally different, and in these reductions, we might finally be seeing some precise decreases in spending by Washington.

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There are no reviews of embassy closures or any different such drastic strikes, which really would cut into the State Department’s mission. But in a assertion of what’s apparently actually important, the State Department reassures us that the State Department might be delicate to the dignity of the launched workers.

A senior official mentioned there are at the moment no plans for abroad closures of embassies and outposts. They added the State Department will work to protect the dignity of affected employees. 

“We’re going to work to preserve the dignity of federal workers,” the official mentioned. “We want to be sensitive to that process and make sure people have the resources they need … and make sure everyone is treated with dignity.”

Well, that’s a consolation. Most of us who have been laid off a time or two in the non-public sector probably have not had employers who had been so delicate about their dignity.

Bear in thoughts, the State Department is one of the federal departments that’s approved by the Constitution. One of the few, in truth. “Right-sizing” State is one factor, but it will be even higher to see some of the extra-constitutional businesses eradicated fully – Education, Environment, and so on. The Trump administration ought to set down the scalpel and begin swinging an axe – then we’ll begin to see some actual outcomes.

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