Trump 2.0 continues to cut the bloat.
According to a State Department memo reviewed by Fox News, nearly 2,000 employees have been notified they will be laid off as the State Department begins its reorganization plan.
The memo was circulated Thursday evening by Michael Rigas, deputy secretary of management and resources.
From Fox News:
The RIF notices plus voluntary departures under the Trump administrationamount to a 15% work force reduction.
“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 said.
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.”
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce warned on Thursday the agency would move quickly after the Supreme Court stayed the lower court’s injunction blocking the administration from implementing widescale force reductions across federal agencies.
This week, Supreme Court Justices gave the green light to Trump’s February 13 executive order calling for “large-scale reductions in force” across federal agencies.
The decision — another major win for Trump — nullifies a May 9 ruling by Northern California District Judge Susan Illston that froze the layoffs. Notably, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the majority.
“Because the Government is likely to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful — and because the other factors bearing on whether to grant a stay are satisfied — we grant the application,” the Supreme Court order stated.
“We express no view on the legality of any Agency [Reduction in Force] and Reorganization Plan produced or approved pursuant to the Executive Order and Memorandum,” the court noted.
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