State Dept moves to fire 1,350+ amid amid Trump-directed purge

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The Foreign Ministry on Friday began to fired more than 1,350 US -based employees as President Donald Trump’s administration moved forward with the unprecedented revision of his diplomatic corpus, a move critics say that the defense and promotion of US interests abroad will damage the US capability.

Holidays affecting 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign services officers in the United States come at a time when Washington is suffering from multiple crisis globally: the Russian war in Ukraine due to the high tensions between Israel and Iran, about two years on the Gaza conflict, and the Middle East.

The manpower was sent, “The department is smooth domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities.” He added, “The reduction in the head count has been carefully designed to affect non -core functions, duplicates or useless offices, and offices where a lot of qualifications can be found.”

According to a notice from the 18,000 employees based in the United States and a senior state official, the total reduction in manpower will be about 3,000, including voluntary departure.

The move is the first step in the reorganization of which Trump has sought to ensure US foreign policy that he is associated with his “US First” agenda. Former diplomats and critics say the firing of foreign services officers threatens the ability to counter the growing claim from the United States, such as China and Russia.

“President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio are making the United States less secure and less safe,” said Democratic Senator Tim Kane, a Democratic Senator from Virginia.

“This is one of the most ridiculous decisions that can potentially be done at a time when China is increasing its diplomatic maps around the world and is setting up a foreign network of military and transportation bases, Russia has been launching a brutal attack on a sovereign country for years,” Ken said.

Several offices were set up inside the department’s headquarters in Washington DC, which are being placed for employees who are being posted to the agency to replace their seeds, laptops, telephones and other property.

The offices were marked by posters who read “Transfer Day Out Processing”. A counter in the building was named after the “Out Processing Service Center” in which small bottles of water were placed with a box of tissues. Inside an office, cardboard boxes were visible.

The five -page “separation list” was sent to workers who are fired on Friday and is viewed by Reuters, telling the employee that they will lose access to the building and their emails on the EDT at 5 pm on Friday. It asks employees to meet a set of steps before they are eliminated.

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Trump ordered Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio in February to improve foreign services to ensure that the Republican president’s foreign policy was “loyalty”. He has also repeatedly promised to “clear the deep situation” by firing the bureaucrats, which he considers unfaithful.

The shake -up is part of Trump’s unprecedented pressure to shrink the federal bureaucracy and spend useless taxpayers on the amount of taxpayers. His administration abolished the US agency for international aid, an important Washington relief arm, distributed billions of dollars of aid worldwide, and added it under the State Department.

Rubio announced in April, announcing the Shakeup Department of the Department, saying that the department was “fola, bureaucratic” in its current form and was unable to “carry out its mission” in this new era of power. “

He imagined a structure that he said that the regional bureaucrats and embassies would strengthen and get rid of programs and offices that are not in accordance with the basic interests of the United States.

The vision will end the role of civilian security, democracy, and the role of a senior official for human rights and some offices that monitor war crimes and conflicts around the world.

“The decision sends the wrong gestures to allies and opponents equally: that the United States is withdrawing globally,” the US Department of Department’s professional group representing employees, the US Foreign Service Association, said in a statement.

He added, “Since the allies have looked at the United States to assure weaknesses and to test rivals, the administration has chosen to find the best professionals to come to the moment. Meanwhile, countries like China are expanding their diplomatic leakage and influence.”

It was expected that the reorganization would end on July 1, but the ongoing legalism was not stopped, as the State Department waited for the US Supreme Court to consider the Trump administration to stop the court order to prevent a large number of job reduction.

On Tuesday, the court cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut off work deductions and to reduce several agencies. Since then, the White House lawyer’s office and the Office of Personal Management have been in harmony with federal agencies to ensure their plans to comply with the law.