State Department, layoff notifications
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Lawmakers noted their letter comes as “recent IRS staffing challenges caused by the Trump Administration” have complicated the processing of outstanding tax refunds.
More than 1,300 employees were forced out of the State Department on Friday, taking with them decades of specialized skills and on-the-job training.
Intel, the Bay Area tech giant whose failure to innovate alongside other major chipmakers has turned it into a laggard of the artificial intelligence era, is more than doubling its planned layoffs in California.
The State Department informed U.S.-based employees on Thursday that it would soon be laying off nearly 2,000 workers as part of a plan to downsize its domestic workforce.
A U.S. diplomat laid off from the State Department after over 20 years says cutting the types of programs she worked on will be “devastating” to U.S. foreign policy and national security. The layoffs are part of a mass reorganization of the federal agency,
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No State Department official publicly said when the first notices for the planned layoffs would be sent, but the widespread expectation is for the terminations to start as soon as Friday.
Employees of the U.S. State Department could receive a layoff notice via email very soon as part of the Trump administration's plan to downsize the government.
U.S. diplomats in Washington are bracing for cuts to the State Department workforce, with dismissal notices expected to hit inboxes as soon as Friday, according to three State Department officials with knowledge of the plans.
The firings follow a major Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for State Secretary Marco Rubio's months-long plan to downsize the agency.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the State Department begins laying employees.