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Why State Department employees say Rubio is a ‘mute accessory to Trump’
Important new reporting from Puck’s Julia Ioffe reveals what America's bruised diplomats really think of their boss, ...
State Department enacts widespread layoffs, cutting 1,353 staff as part of reorganization
The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to ...
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Diplomacy or Disaster? Is Secretary Rubio Dismantling or Rebuilding America’s State Department?
Secretary Rubio has been leading the charge to clean up the State Department’s bloated bureaucracy since he took office. He ...
State Department starts firing more than 1,350 workers in Trump's shake-up of diplomatic corps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S.-based employees on Friday as the administration ...
State Department enacts widespread layoffs, cutting 1,353 staff
The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to ...
Cleared to Lay Off Workers, Some Federal Agencies Find Many Already Left
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Labor Department say retirements and volunteer attrition have helped the agencies ...
Humanitarian system struggles to fill US void in Sudan, where the world’s most dire crisis rages
Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.
Humanitarians struggle to fill US void in Sudan, site of the world’s most dire crisis
The dramatic reorientation of U.S. aid abroad comes as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany have announced a scaling down of their own foreign assistance budgets and as humanitarian crises in ...
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U.S. State Department Fires Over 1,300 Employees in Major Trump-Era Shake-Up
Layoff notices were issued to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments, stating that ...
City manager's proposed Austin budget excludes a tax-rate election. The mayor won't rule one out.
Austin's city manager on Friday released his proposed budget for next year. Questions still loom over whether city leaders ...
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response
In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are ...
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1,100 jobs could be cut at U.S. national lab in Tri-Cities under Trump budget
Across all national laboratories, an estimated 7,700 jobs would be lost directly under the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal ‘26 budget, said Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., at a June hearing of ...