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The roles of some of the State Department employees fired last week overlap with priorities that President Donald Trump has ...
A former senior U.S. official said it was “shortsighted” to consolidate the department’s well-respected intelligence arm.
The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to ...
If California's legal challenge can't stop the Trump administration from withholding funds, the Education Department said ...
The State Department informed U.S.-based employees on Thursday that it would soon be laying off nearly 2,000 workers as part ...
No State Department official publicly said when the first notices for the planned layoffs would be sent, but the widespread ...
Employees of the U.S. State Department could receive a layoff notice via email very soon as part of the Trump ...
Administration officials say the plan will cut down on unwieldy bureaucracy and modernize the agency.
A senior State Department official faced tough questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday as he defended sweeping layoffs and the dismantling of the U.S.'s lead foreign aid agency.
The State Department has formally advised staffers that it will be sending layoff notices to some of them soon.
The complexity of the State Department’s layoffs stems from the hundreds of “competitive areas” it set up ahead of time.