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.