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Judge halts Rubio’s plan to lay off almost 2,000 State Dept. employees
The Trump administration has argued that the State Department is bloated and layoffs are necessary. The court found that’s ...
Judge blocks State Department from firing workers while injunction is in effect
A federal judge in San Francisco has stopped Secretary of State Marco Rubio from proceeding with plans to downsize the State ...
Rubio spearheads massive State Dept. reorganization set to eliminate, merge more than 300 offices
New State Department reorganization plans will cut or consolidate more than 300 of the agency’s offices and bureaus as part ...
US judge blocks State Department's planned overhaul, mass layoffs
A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide ...
State department planning to lay off hundreds of US-based staff
The state department is planning to lay off hundreds of US-based staff in the coming weeks as part of a major reorganisation, ...
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State Department ‘appears’ to be violating court order by issuing layoffs as soon as June 13, judge says
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the Trump administration’s request to strike down Illston’s ...
Rubio revises State Department overhaul plan amid Democratic blowback
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revised his proposal to overhaul the department to include a secretary-level position to ...
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Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State
Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to gut the State ... as they weren’t authorized to discuss internal reform measures publicly. The State Department did not give a timeline on when it would ...
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Why Philanthropy Should Help Build a Better State Department
Decades of investments demonstrate that philanthropy’s foreign assistance playbook is, at best, incomplete. The size and ...
US will ban foreign officials to punish countries for social media rules
The State Department will restrict visas for foreign officials that support content moderation ‘censorship,’ an apparent ...
Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State
Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to gut the State Department’s human rights bureau as part of a sweeping reorganization of the country’s diplomatic service, according to internal department ...