The Trump administration plans to cut about 1,300 positions from the State Department, according to a notice sent Friday to agency staff and viewed by POLITICO’S E&E News. That would include dozens of officials who work on international climate efforts.
The layoffs, part of a departmentwide reorganization announced earlier this year, will cover more than 1,100 civil service jobs and nearly 250 foreign service employees based domestically, the notice said.
Combined with early retirements and so-called deferred resignations, State will lose nearly 3,000 staff under the reorganization, the notice said. The agency currently employs about 18,000 domestic staff members.
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Email notifications are set to go out Friday to individual agency officials.
