The United States Department of State has sent dismissal notifications this Friday to more than 1,300 employees in the country and abroad, at the beginning of a reduction of its “inflated” template. The news is part of the President’s administration efforts, Donald Trump, for restructuring the federal government.
According to local media, the notices were sent this Friday via email to more 1,100 civil service workers and around 250 US foreign service officialswho will also be placed in administrative decline in deadlines of between 90 and 120 days from the date they were informed of their dismissal.
The elimination of these positions is part of a plan to centralize and consolidate the organism’s operations without affecting its operation that has been designed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. He had already communicated to Congress last May his intention to reduce by 15 % to the workforce of the department in the US, which currently has 18,000 employees.
According to the head of American diplomacy, the objective of this restructuring is to optimize an “inflated bureaucracy that slows innovation and inappropriately assigns the scarce resources” and also Eliminate vestiges of “radical political ideology.”
The reorganization of the workforce in the State Department will mainly impact human rights offices and refugees, a work that will now be assimilated by regional offices, according to reports from The New York Times.
“We inherit a dynamic that needed reforms and we are implementing them,” the spokeswoman for the State Department told the press on Thursday, Tammy Brucewho insisted that the administration believe in a foreign policy that prioritizes the interests of the United States.
The beginning of the wave of mass layoffs in the State Department takes place after last Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court unlocks an executive order to allow Trump’s government to continue with federal personnel reductions.
In this way, the Afsaunion and professional organization that brings together diplomats and career officials of the State Department, issued a statement where it “flatly” opposes what you see how the dismantling of a “first -line diplomatic force” in the middle of a “Moment of great world instability.”
“This decision sends an erroneous signal to both allies and adversaries: that the United States is withdrawing from the world scene,” says the text. While the allies seek the confidence of the US and the rivals prove their weakness, the administration has chosen to marginalize the best prepared professionals to face this moment.
