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US State Department's planned layoffs may violate court order, judge says
A federal judge in California on Wednesday said her recent ruling barring President Donald Trump's administration from laying ...
Rubio lays out detailed plan to restructure State Department to focus on Trump’s priorities
The US State Department on Thursday formally told Congress it intends to make sweeping changes to focus on the Trump ...
State Department planning to shrink U.S. staff by 3,400 in massive reorganization
The Trump administration plans to eliminate thousands of State Department jobs and close or merge hundreds of domestic ...
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State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China
The US State Department announced a major reorg this ... a fifteen-year surge in size and taxpayer cost. Echoing his boss, President Trump, Rubio promised the reorganization would "drain the ...
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US: State Department to eliminate over 100 bureaus, offices
Trump had issued a separate executive order in February directing Rubio to revamp the US Foreign Service and how the State Department functions to ensure that the US diplomatic corps staunchly ...
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US State Department closing office aimed at countering foreign disinformation
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and ...
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US may close State Department office for science and technology pacts
The US State Department office that negotiates science and technology agreements could be upended under an agency reorganisation, raising concerns among analysts that such a move could weaken US ...