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The State Department will begin firing personnel “soon” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio implements his dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an email from a top State Department official to staff Thursday evening.
Mass layoffs at the U.S. State Department have begun. Almost 3,000 employees will depart the agency as part of the cuts and deferred retirement, with layoffs of more than 1,100 civil service employees and nearly 250 foreign service officers,
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