State Department cuts over 1,300 staffers as part of Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul

Source: New York Post

The State Department on Friday began terminating more than 1,300 positions as part of the Trump administration’s effort to trim the size of the federal workforce.   The layoffs will affect 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with assignments in the US, according to a senior department official.   Employees began receiving termination notices in the morning informing them that their positions were being “abolished.