More than 1,000 employees of the US State Department have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce its federal workforce.
The involuntary staff reductions included 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to State Department employees on Friday and obtained by CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner.
More than 1,500 other State Department employees took voluntary departures earlier this year as part of the federal government’s massive reorganisation effort.
Critics have argued the mass cuts will affect the work the department does. MORE
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