US State Department says planned layoffs to begin soon
“The department will soon communicate with people who are affected by the reduction in force,” Deputy Secretary of Management and Resources Michael Rigas said. He said.
“After the notifications are made, the department will enter the final stage of the restructuring and focus on giving attention -oriented diplomacy.” He said.
The movement is the first step of a restructuring in which Trump is trying to ensure that US foreign policy is compatible with the “American first” agenda. It will probably result in hundreds of business deductions, including distinguished foreign service members who advocate US interests in the face of increasing supplies from competitors such as China and Russia.
No Foreign Ministry officials did not openly tell the public when the first notifications would be sent for the planned layout, but that the termination of widespread expectations to start on Friday as soon as possible.
The Supreme Court enabled the Trump administration to maintain business cuts and sweep a large number of agencies, which can lead to tens of thousands of dismissals while significantly reshaping the federal bureaucracy. In February, Trump issued an executive order that directed Foreign Minister Marco Rubio to renew the external service to renew the foreign service to enable the Republican President’s foreign policy to “loyalty”. In addition, he fired the bureaucrats he saw without loyalty and repeatedly promised to “clean the deep situation”. Neither Rigas nor any other Foreign Ministry official did not specify how many people would be fired, but in the congress plans sent in May, the department proposed to quit about 1,900 employees of 18,000 domestic labor force. It was estimated that 1,575 had more postponed resignation.
Congress plans did not specify how many of these people would be public service and how many would be from external service, but more than 300 office and office of the department would be aerodynamic, united or eliminated.
‘Very bureaucratic’
Last week, more than 130 retired diplomats and other former senior US officials published an open letter criticizing the planned revision.
One of the criticisms is typically aimed at the firing of several hundred US external service officers, which are typically for years of experience, certain areas and regions and language skills and language skills in the world.
The management promised to bring back “merit”, as well as eliminating many diversity and efforts to include. All of the SAYI programs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have not been canceled, although not.
US officials said that the criteria for layoffs are based on the functions of the agency’s offices, and that they are based on the personnel invading these roles and overlapping responsibilities.
Speaking to journalists about the status of anonymity, a senior Foreign Ministry official said, “The focus is before the establishment table. The functions of a more efficient, talented, fast and effective state department.” He said.
“When he has been too big to commit something, he has to change when he has to really function and to present to project or action,” he said, “
As part of the restructuring, according to the Congress notification sent to the Congress, the role of a senior official for civil security, democracy and human rights will be eliminated with offices following war crimes and conflicts in the world.
A newly approved role of Foreign Aid and Humanitarian Affairs Secretary will control the new democracy, human rights and labor office, which will be managed by the “diplomacy of the department based on value in traditional Western concepts”, democracy and Western values assistant. ”
