REDUCTION IN FORCE: State Department Employees to Learn Their Fate

The State Department will notify Friday employees who are losing their jobs in the reduction in force, according to an email obtained by The Daily Signal.

“In connection with the departmental reorganization first announced by the secretary on April 22, 2025, the department is streamlining domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities,” the email 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,” the email continues.

The reorganization requires the departure of nearly 3,000 members of the workforce, including 1,107 civil service members and 246 foreign service employees with domestic assignments.

This will kickstart the final stage of the State Department’s reorganization, allowing the department to “focus its attention on delivering results-driven diplomacy,” according to a Thursday memo.

Foreign service employees who are notified of their release on Friday will have 120 days to depart.

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Rubio announced the massive reorganization in April with the goal of focusing “resources on policy priorities and eliminat[ing] redundant functions, empowering our people while increasing accountability.”

In May, Rubio “reviewed and approved thoughtful plans submitted by the bureaus, which included a targeted reduction in domestic workforce.”

“The ‘America First’ State Department will better serve the American people,” a senior State Department official previously told The Daily Signal.