The State Department has informed its employees of the upcoming large -scale pruning as part of a restructuring plan. Form A “more agile” department.
State Deputy Secretary Michael Rigas said in an internal email on Thursday that the expiration of the affected workers will be sent “soon”, and said “we want to thank them for their service in the United States.”
“Once notifications were received, the department would enter the final stage of its restructuring and focus on giving result-in-conduct diplomacy,” Rigas said Interview message Many were reviewed by Shops,
State Secretary Marco Rubio announced the restructuring plan for the department in April and Delivered It would be better for the Congress to the Congress in late May, saying that it would be better to “promote more agile department, America and protect Americans worldwide.”
With this effort, hundreds of workers of the department will be likely to lose their jobs. Officials of the State Department have not mentioned that the first “lack of force” notices will go out, but some are expected to be sent out in early Friday.
Upon arriving for comment, the State Department sent the hill for press briefing of the department on Thursday.
State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce told reporters, “This is not an extended waiting for those who are listening to this building or home and worldwide in this building or fellow Americans.”
Rigus email comes two days after the Supreme Court Picked up The order of the district court stopped the administration of President Trump from large -scale trimmed. It is not clear how many people will be closed, but the department proposed to cut the Congress in May while providing its organizational plan to cut around 2,000 employees.
Rubio while meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, while talking to reporters in Malaysia on Thursday, said that RIF is a result of restructuring attempt, not “trying to get rid of people”.
“But if you close the bureau, you do not need those positions. Understand that there are some of these posts that are being abolished, not people,” Rubio, who is also Trump’s National Security Advisor, couple“Some of them are incomplete positions for potential – or positions, which someone has quickly retired, and therefore is about – or being unfolded.”
