{"id":13085,"date":"2025-07-10T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13085"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:48:07","slug":"state-department-informs-workforce-of-targeted-reduction-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13085","title":{"rendered":"State Department informs workforce of ‘targeted reduction’ in coming days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The State Department plans to release a letter to all employees Thursday evening informing them that the department is officially moving to implement a \u201ctargeted reduction in domestic workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSoon, the Department will be communicating to individuals affected by the reduction in force. First and foremost, we want to thank them for their dedication and service to the United States<\/a>,\u201d the letter, signed by Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Michael Rigas, reads.<\/p>\n

The letter advises that once these notifications have taken place, the department will go into the \u201cfinal stage\u201d of reorganization, where the new organizational chart unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier in the year will fully take effect.<\/p>\n

Senior State Department officials described the changes as \u201cthe most complicated reorganization in government history,\u201d emphasizing that the cuts were largely made to eliminate Cold War-era redundancies as well as eliminating functions that were \u201cno longer aligned with the president\u2019s foreign policy priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a signing ceremony for a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the State Department, June 27, 2025, in Washington.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of the day, we have to do what\u2019s right for the mission,\u201d one senior official said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of sort of unnecessary bureaucracy,\u201d the second official asserted.<\/p>\n

The State Department previously reported to Congress that it would aim to reduce its domestic workforce by around 15% as part of the reorganization. However, the senior officials specified that more than half of that goal would be met through \u201cvoluntary reductions\u201d — people who elected to take the deferred resignation plan offered through the “Fork in the Road\u201d emails earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The officials also said the department did not have current plans to reduce its force overseas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secretary wants to take this one step at a time,\u201d one official said.<\/p>\n

The officials also defended the department\u2019s decision to cut some highly trained foreign service officers rather than reassign them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The State Department plans to release a letter to all employees Thursday evening informing them that the department is officially moving to implement a \u201ctargeted reduction in domestic workforce.\u201d \u201cSoon, the Department will be communicating to individuals affected by the reduction in force. First and foremost, we want to thank them for their dedication and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions\/13087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}