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* Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday.
* The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically downsize the federal government.
The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees Friday, a move that critics say will make us less safe abroad and hurt America's leadership across the globe.
The Trump administration has pushed to reshape American diplomacy and worked aggressively to shrink the size of the federal government, including mass dismissals as part of moves to dismantle whole departments like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department.
State Dept. layoffs
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The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press.
Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.
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Clandestine @WarClandestine
Interesting.
WaPo claim anonymous sources are telling them that the Trump admin are currently "firing and pushing out employees" at the DOJ/FBI, with zero explanation or warning.
Sounds like a purge is going on.
Perhaps bad actors are being drawn out and eliminated. But one thing is for certain, that much is going on behind the scenes. There's plenty going on that we do not get to see.
As expected, the State Dept has put out a general notice of the expected reduction in force (RIF) today, July 11.
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) July 11, 2025
3k people will their lose jobs: 1,107 civil servants, 246 FSOs with domestic assignments. Individual RIF notices are expected throughout the day. pic.twitter.com/XNFMuezyCr
Why? Because you've ran the State Dept for the USA before and you know exactly how many employees it needs?
— Greg (@unrealJonesy) July 11, 2025
No. You haven't a clue. Here are the real numbers:
The State Department plans to reduce its domestic workforce by ~18%, targeting up to 3,448 employees.
This includes:…
CEDA strongly condemns the U.S. Department of State’s Reduction in Force (RIF), which decimates two of the Department’s most critical bureaus: the Bureaus of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. https://t.co/9GQ51kwbYa
— CEDA (@weareceda) July 11, 2025
agent-maroon said:
WTFisCEDA.org
agent-maroon said:
WTFisCEDA.org
Looks like Rubio has more people to fire. https://t.co/2M7A8T17Y4
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 12, 2025
The duality of man on the "For You" feed, as exemplified by @ChristianHeiens and McFaul. pic.twitter.com/Jj3JYMJX7d
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 12, 2025
This is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying. Like watching a bunch of monkeys playing with nuclear controls. The people who decided we should die by the thousands in Iraq are really that self-unaware and dumb.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 12, 2025
Save the American republic
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) July 11, 2025
End the Fed https://t.co/Pow0pMrfKB
I served in the PA Bureau at State under W. PA was the dumping ground of every employee who refused to work but could not be fired.
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) July 12, 2025
There some great & knowledgeable & dedicated career staff with 80% bloat. As a political appointee, you needed private insurance because if you… https://t.co/Mec3rfoKZf
REPORT: AG Pam Bondi has dismissed 20 DOJ employees involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents investigation and the January 6th prosecutions, according to Axios.
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) July 12, 2025
will25u said:
Took long enough.REPORT: AG Pam Bondi has dismissed 20 DOJ employees involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents investigation and the January 6th prosecutions, according to Axios.
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) July 12, 2025
will25u said:I served in the PA Bureau at State under W. PA was the dumping ground of every employee who refused to work but could not be fired.
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) July 12, 2025
There some great & knowledgeable & dedicated career staff with 80% bloat. As a political appointee, you needed private insurance because if you… https://t.co/Mec3rfoKZf
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I served in the PA Bureau at State under W. PA was the dumping ground of every employee who refused to work but could not be fired.
There some great & knowledgeable & dedicated career staff with 80% bloat. As a political appointee, you needed private insurance because if you fired someone the union could sue you personally, and State sided with the union.
One person spent all day calling information shows to win contests.
Many ran their EBay Store from their desk.
The average person swiped in at 7:58, walked to the cafeteria, and did not get to their desk until 10:30.
Fridays before Redskins or Ravens games half the employees would wear Jerseys and have theme lunches that last 3 hours.
I knew a 30 year old grandmother with 5 kids, no man in her life so did literally nothing but manage her household all day and was told we can't fire her she has 5 kids and a grandkid and what will happen to them? It was a welfare program.
Many had accrued so much PTO that every Friday they called in sick.
At 3:45 they'd gather by the exits to meet friends. Stare at the big clock. And the second it hit 4:01pm, they'd swipe out. On their card they were there "before 8" stated until "after 4" and that was cause for step increase.
I met some of the most lazy, conniving, selfish individuals at State. Greedy. Entitled. Sabotaging.
If Congress objects ask them if a union manages their office staff, or if they do, and can they hire / fire / promote, or does some other entity get to decide for them.
I cannot applaud this enough except 1300 is short by 7,000. And every other agency needs to do the same. Government is not a welfare or jobs program.
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[color=#000000][size=3]Solomon said the massive case has been built largely out of the public eye, obscured by media theatrics and political infighting. "It's been masked by a lot of this infighting and drama and soap opera stuff," he said. "But the truth of the matter is, MAGA base Americans are gonna be happy when they see where this is all heading."[/size][/color]
Nuremberg 2 Has Begun —
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) July 13, 2025
And the Globalists Are TERRIFIED
🎤 Jim Ferguson reporting after attending the explosive court case in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
What I witnessed was unprecedented.
👨⚖ Inside the courtroom, global elites were named in a case involving:
▪ Crimes… pic.twitter.com/IxDQ8JYCI4
Serious Lee said:
populism has them running scared.Nuremberg 2 Has Begun —
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) July 13, 2025
And the Globalists Are TERRIFIED
🎤 Jim Ferguson reporting after attending the explosive court case in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
What I witnessed was unprecedented.
👨⚖ Inside the courtroom, global elites were named in a case involving:
▪ Crimes… pic.twitter.com/IxDQ8JYCI4
THE CLUB OF ROME.
— 🏴 BLOKE IN PUB 🇺🇲 (@paulturner2012) July 10, 2025
In your faces!
Now do you believe us? https://t.co/ILORF9jhIK
I wish people learned how To Get Over Themselves . . . . https://t.co/r5osZetrMW
— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) July 12, 2025
oh no said:
it's still weird to me that members of the party of weird kink, blgtqiasp+, MAPs, anti-god/religion communists, transitioning children, drag queen stories for children, teaching sexual ideology to children, and mental illness are programmed to be so mad that Matt Gaetz paid an escort service for some dates 8-10 years ago before he was married and one of his dates allegedly may or may not have been 17 at the time. Why did ethics committee look into it but zero charges have ever been filed for it?
not that Gaetz is some infallible saint or anything. if there was a crime, prove it and send him where criminals belong. ..but the different sets of standards that are continually established is tiresome.
J. Walter Weatherman said:oh no said:
it's still weird to me that members of the party of weird kink, blgtqiasp+, MAPs, anti-god/religion communists, transitioning children, drag queen stories for children, teaching sexual ideology to children, and mental illness are programmed to be so mad that Matt Gaetz paid an escort service for some dates 8-10 years ago before he was married and one of his dates allegedly may or may not have been 17 at the time. Why did ethics committee look into it but zero charges have ever been filed for it?
not that Gaetz is some infallible saint or anything. if there was a crime, prove it and send him where criminals belong. ..but the different sets of standards that are continually established is tiresome.
Statutory rape isn't a federal crime, so there were no federal charges to be filed once they determined all they had was trafficking and there wasn't enough proof for that. And then the statute of limitations for Florida expired on any state charges.
He tried to quit congress before the ethics report came out because he knew what it said and he was hoping they wouldn't release it, but they let it out anyways. And then he withdrew himself from the AG nomination, I'm assuming because he knew the report was true and that he'd never get confirmed.
He may not be a criminal by definition but he certainly seems like a scumbag even by Washington standards. There are literally likely thousands of people who would be better options if Trump decides to move on from Bondi. It's ok to think that he's a scumbag and that people on the left are also scumbags too.
oh no said:
it's still weird to me that members of the party of weird kink, blgtqiasp+, MAPs, anti-god/religion communists, transitioning children, drag queen stories for children, teaching sexual ideology to children, and mental illness are programmed to be so mad that Matt Gaetz paid an escort service for some dates 8-10 years ago before he was married and one of his dates allegedly may or may not have been 17 at the time. Why did ethics committee look into it but zero charges have ever been filed for it?
not that Gaetz is some infallible saint or anything. if there was a crime, prove it and send him where criminals belong. ..but the different sets of standards that are continually established is tiresome.
Ulysses90 said:
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-pulls-all-military-speakers-globalist-aspen-security-forum
Good, the DoD has no business with this crowd. Hegseth also needs to stop sending GO/FO-track O-6 to be fellows at Brookings, CSIS, and the Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center. This is where they are taught the secret handshakes and get wired into their post-uniform career path.
The fact that a US General in uniform is attending Bilderberg this year is a sign that the military is still under the sway of the globalist billionaires.