The State Department is losing nearly 3,000 members of its workforce, with thousands of U.S.-based staffers receiving termination notices on Friday.
“This is us taking another step away from the world. And will be looked upon as a historic mistake,” said Rob Jenkins, a former assistant to the administrator at USAID.
The mass reduction-in-force will lead to an estimated 15% loss of the agency’s nearly 24,000 American staff, including more than 1,100 civil servants and nearly 250 foreign service officers currently with domestic assignments.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
