State Department cuts 3,000 jobs in ‘largest reorganization since Cold War’

When senior state department officials determined the agency to trim in “the largest restructuring since the Cold War”, they could not get a total headcon on the employees – until months, they say.

“It took us three months to receive a list of people working in the building,” a senior official of the State Department told reporters during a briefing on Fogi Bottom on Monday.

“They could not tell you how many people have worked here,” the official said. “It is scary as a taxpayer and as a public servant to think about how many employees we do. This is a national security agency, you know who these people are?”

Reorganization will result in a department with about 3,000 less employees. About half of the people bought one voluntary, and the other half was given a decrease in force (RIF) notice.

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A handful of state’s secretary, the closest advisors of Marco Rubio, evaluated more than 700 domestic offices within the state department, that RIF (lack of force) present notices to employees who were found “duplicative” or “disabled”.

The idea, officials said, “maximum 12 clearance on any piece of any paper,” means that the documents “40, will pass through 12 layers of approval rather than 50 clearance.”

The department has dozens of different offices human resources, and when a new employee was hired, they were accepting the records faced by other agencies at their previous work.

An official said, “It is crazy that a department that works with such an important diplomat, national security tasks, running his matters with more than $ 50 billion budget,” said an official.

Investigations found three separate offices to deal with restrictions, two handling arms control issues.

The official said, “Some of these regional offices had such functional civilian freedom, civil society, democracy bureau, human rights and labor, population, refugee and migration within the country’s desk, regional bureau, construction besides construction,” the official said. “Each independent bureau and office had their own executive director, their own HR department, their own payments. We were paying more than 60 different offices.”

Rubio’s team focuses on non -neutral layers, preserving frontline diplomacy. In late June, a Supreme Court verdict reopened the door for large -scale federal trimming after a lower court blocked the cut. Legal challenges from unions are pending, although the restructuring is proceeding.

Officials discontinued the “Diplomats in Residence” program, which they determined as “cushion jobs”.

“State Department employees are being paid to visit Georgetown, and are recruitment for foreign service,” an official said, “an official said,” without any kind of matrix or accountability. “

He did not touch the country’s desk, which was particularly focused on nations such as Iran or China, and no one set fire to anyone from passport services or diplomatic security. He did not cut the embassies or foreign positions.

“We touched those who are doing such useless, mindbogling functions or places where we found natural capacity in combination with two offices.”

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Critics have warned that the cut in diplomatic duct may damage the US presence globally and reduce China soft power.

“A Climate Change Office is not fighting China,” an official shot.

The department also closed an office that Afghan refugees were tasked to resume, which was demanding to flee from Taliban rule and closed the population bureau, refugees and migrations.

“The office was not doing the work that was competing with China or serving the national interest,” the official said. “China has defeated the United States in many of those countries. So I would argue that the increase in the state department has not increased with the increase of results for the American taxpayer.”

In another example, an official told about a Gulf State Foreign Minister who complained Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Bureau under the Biden administration inspired them to condensed foreign workers.

“This caused heavy diplomatic tension with him,” the official said. “He was happy foreign minister and wants to work with us on shared prosperity and business agreements who are not trying to conserve their domestic affairs for other countries.”

Nevertheless, this process has created stressful tension within the department. Employees filled tears in the lobby below to say goodbye, reading some showing signs, “Diplomacy Matters.”

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Indications with messages like “anti -fascism” and “you created an impact” were tapped throughout the department.

A group of more than 130 former senior officials, including former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, signed an open letter, expressed concern that deepest employees may endanger the effectiveness of the US foreign policy.

Some have captured the results of a Whitdown-Down State Department and Foreign Aid Equipment: by a report Atlantic It was found that the Trump administration had ordered the provocation of 500 tonnes of emergency food which was bought as aid distributed in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Biden administration.

“Its It is a little shame to see people behaving in this way. You surprise if he was interested in following the President and maintaining his oath to listen to the commandments of the people, “an official said.