DRAINING THE SWAMP: Laid Off Staffers Filmed Crying as State Department Cuts Over 1,300 Bureaucrats
The State Department began laying off more than 1,300 employees on Friday as part of a sweeping reorganization aimed at reducing waste and eliminating redundancy.
The layoffs, which began on Friday, resulted in the elimination of 1,107 civil service worker positions and 246 foreign service officer positions, according to internal notices obtained by multiple outlets.
In all, 1,353 positions were eliminated in this initial wave, with officials signaling that this is only the beginning of a larger effort to cut as many as 3,000 jobs.
According to a report from the New York Post, “Employees began receiving termination notices in the morning informing them that their positions were being ‘abolished.’”
“Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices,” a message sent to the fired staffers said.