The State Division started shedding greater than 1,300 staff on Friday as a part of a sweeping reorganization geared toward lowering waste and eliminating redundancy.
The layoffs, which started on Friday, resulted within the elimination of 1,107 civil service employee positions and 246 international service officer positions, based on inside notices obtained by a number of retailers.
Transferring scenes on the State Division immediately—one thing I’ve by no means witnessed in over two years of masking the Division. Workers packed up years of service into cardboard bins, leaving the constructing with tears, hugs, and applause. https://t.co/Wooyr2s50t pic.twitter.com/rHQn5JMWdM
— Rabia İclal Turan (@iclalturan) July 12, 2025
In all, 1,353 positions have been eradicated on this preliminary wave, with officers signaling that that is solely the start of a bigger effort to chop as many as 3,000 jobs.
In response to a report from the New York Submit, “Workers started receiving termination notices within the morning informing them that their positions have been being ‘abolished.’”
“Headcount reductions have been fastidiously tailor-made to have an effect on non-core capabilities, duplicative or redundant workplaces,” a message despatched to the fired staffers stated.
“By afternoon, a number of laid-off staffers have been noticed tearfully departing the State Division’s headquarters. They have been met by a crowd of clapping supporters outdoors the Harry S. Truman Constructing, close to the White Home,” the Submit report continued. “Affected international service officers will likely be positioned on administrative go away for 120 days earlier than formally dropping their jobs. The separation interval for civil servants will likely be 60 days.”
State Dept staff in solidarity with their greater than 1,300 colleagues who’ve been fired immediately holding an impromptu clap-out on the Division’s C avenue entrance. Plenty of individuals in tears. pic.twitter.com/7wNVmrhyMS
— Hümeyra Pamuk (@humeyra_pamuk) July 11, 2025
Movies of the tearful and dramatic departures have been posted to social media.
BREAKING: STATE DEPT BLOODBATH: DIPLOMATS CLAPPED OUT IN TEARS
Many years of service, gone in a flash.
Tonight, the State Division foyer became a farewell graveyard.
Laid off. Hugged out. Clapped into unemployment. pic.twitter.com/Ha0evT6CKk
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) July 12, 2025
WATCH! Workers perform belongings after over 1300 fired on the State Dept pic.twitter.com/sLpwiYWPZk
— Alex Raufoglu (@ralakbar) July 11, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the layoffs will make the division “extra environment friendly and extra targeted.”
“It’s not a consequence of attempting to do away with individuals. However for those who shut the bureau, you don’t want these positions,” Rubio stated whereas talking to the press on Thursday. “Perceive that a few of these are positions which might be being eradicated, not individuals.”
