The US Department of State on Thursday evening notified its staff that it would “in the coming days” fire hundreds of US-based employees, following this week’s Supreme Court decision allowing Donald Trump’s administration to proceed with mass job cuts across federal agencies.
The administration’s plan, unveiled by secretary of state Marco Rubio in April, would eliminate about 15 per cent of the department’s workforce and is designed to make the state department “relevant,” “effective, [and] quick”, department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.
“When something is too large to operate, too bureaucratic, to actually function and to deliver projects or action, it has to change,” she said.
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