美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)看到的国务院内部沟通显示，国务院正在向1107名公务员和246名有国内任务的外交人员发出正式裁员通知。
根据该通知，所有针对文职雇员和外交官员的通知预计将在周五结束前发出。
受影响的公务员在被解雇前通常将被安排60天的行政假，而外交人员将被安排120天的行政假，然后从该部门离职。
美国广播公司(ABC News)获得的一份备忘录显示，美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)周五晚间正式通知国务院，4月份公布的重组计划将于周一开始生效。
“这些变化将于2025年7月14日生效。在那一天，一些部门员工将开始在新的办公室工作，”卢比奥说。“完成所有内部管理步骤以完成这一过渡需要一些时间。”
卢比奥接着说，在部门内接受新任务的员工将于周一开始向他们的新主管汇报。
该备忘录继续提供一些细节的过渡指导，并建议该部门将在“未来几周内根据需要”分享额外的指导
官员们表示，该部门受到影响的领域比最初预计的要多。ABC新闻被告知，劳动力减少包括国务院人口、难民和移民部门以及外交安全局的多名雇员。
预计该部的一些领域也有许多削减，包括其能源和冲突与稳定行动部门、监测和打击贩运人口办公室和全球妇女问题办公室。官员们说，其他受影响的领域包括民主、人权和劳工局，海洋和国际环境与科学事务局，教育和文化事务局，以及国际组织事务局。
根据这份通报，作为裁员的一部分，预计总共将有3，000名员工离职，但这一数字也包括自愿离职。
部门领导此前强调，他们希望谨慎处理裁员，并分别通知每个受影响的员工;然而，许多人是通过看到一个可下载的官方人事文件夹才知道他们的就业状况发生了变化，该文件夹是在一夜之间被添加到一个在线人力资源门户网站上的。
员工已被告知，他们将在今天结束前无法进入大楼，无法收发电子邮件，也无法使用一些应用程序。存放个人物品的箱子正在国务院校园内的多个地点分发。该部还在全部设立了“过渡日外出处理”站。
受影响的员工还被指示向他们的团队发送有关他们项目的“简要更新”，将任何硬文件留在他们的工作区，并设置外出信息。
虽然这些裁员集中在国内劳动力，但它们是基于今年5月29日的人事分配。因此，从那时到现在，有限数量的受影响员工被转移到国外。他们被告知在各自的岗位上遵循检查程序。
美国国务院周四晚上向所有员工发布了一封信，通知他们该部门正式开始实施“有针对性的减少国内劳动力”
“很快，该部门将向受裁员影响的个人传达信息。首先，我们要感谢他们对的奉献和服务美国这封由管理和资源部副部长迈克尔·里加斯签名的信写道。
国务院高级官员将这些变化描述为“政府历史上最复杂的重组”，强调削减主要是为了消除冷战时期的冗余，并取消“不再符合总统外交政策优先事项”的职能。
一名高级官员说，“归根结底，我们必须做对任务有利的事情。”。
“有大量不必要的官僚主义，”第二名官员断言。
根据美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)获得的官员和电子邮件，国务院多个领域的员工收到了他们被错误解雇的通知。
被错误地告知他们被拆穿的官员收到了类似下面的邮件，通知他们这个错误。
国务院此前向国会报告称，作为重组的一部分，其目标是削减约15%的国内劳动力。然而，高级官员明确表示，超过一半的目标将通过“自愿削减”来实现，这些人选择接受今年早些时候通过“岔路口”电子邮件提供的延期辞职计划。
官员们还表示，国防部目前没有削减海外驻军的计划。
一名官员表示:“国防部长希望一步一步来。”。
官员们还为国防部决定削减一些训练有素的外交官员而不是重新分配他们进行辩护。
State Department cuts broader than anticipated, include diplomatic security
The State Department is sending formal layoff notices to 1,107 civil service employees and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments, according to internal department communication reviewed by ABC News.
All notifications for civilian service employees and foreign service officers are expected to go out by the end of the day on Friday, according to the communication.
Impacted civil service employees will generally be placed on 60 days of administrative leave before termination, while foreign service officers will be placed on administrative leave for 120 days and then separated from the department.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio officially notified the State Department Friday evening that the reorganization plan unveiled in April will begin to go into effect on Monday, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.
"These changes will take effect on July 14, 2025. On that date, some Department employees will begin to work in new bureaus of offices," Rubio said. "It will take some time to complete all the internal administrative steps to complete this transition."
Rubio goes on to say that employees who have received new assignments within the department will begin reporting to their new supervisors on Monday.
The memo goes on to provide transitional guidance in some detail and advises that the department will share additional guidance "in the coming weeks as needed."
Officials say more areas of the department were impacted than originally anticipated. ABC News was told that the workforce reduction includes multiple employees within the population, refugees and migration wings of the State Department and within the diplomatic security bureau.
There were also many cuts from the areas of the department that were anticipated, including its energy resources and conflict and stabilization operations wings, the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and the Office of Global Women's Issues. Other impacted areas include Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, officials said.
In all, 3,000 employees are expected to depart as part of the reduction in force, according to the communication, but that number also includes voluntary departures.
Department leadership previously emphasized that they wanted to handle the layoffs with care, individually notifying each impacted employee; however, many are learning of the change in their employment status by seeing a downloadable Official Personnel Folder that was added to an online human resources portal in the overnight hours.
Employees have been informed they will lose access to the building, their email and some applications by the end of the day. Boxes for personal effects are being distributed at multiple points across the State Department's campus. The department has also set up "Transition Day Out Processing" stations throughout the department.
Impacted employees are also being instructed to send their teams a "brief update" on their projects, leave any hard files in their work area, and to set an out-of-office message.
While these layoffs are focused on the domestic work force, they are based on personnel assignments on May 29 of this year. As such, a limited number of the impacted employees have been transferred abroad between then and now. They are being told to follow checkout procedures at their respective posts.
The State Department released a letter to all employees Thursday evening informing them that the department was officially moving to implement a "targeted reduction in domestic workforce."
"Soon, the Department will be communicating to individuals affected by the reduction in force. First and foremost, we want to thank them for their dedication and service to theUnited States," the letter, signed by Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Michael Rigas, reads.
Senior State Department officials described the changes as "the most complicated reorganization in government history," emphasizing that the cuts were largely made to eliminate Cold War-era redundancies as well as eliminating functions that were "no longer aligned with the president's foreign policy priorities."
"At the end of the day, we have to do what's right for the mission," one senior official said.
"There's a tremendous amount of sort of unnecessary bureaucracy," the second official asserted.
Employees in multiple areas across the State Department received notifications that they were being laid off in error, according to officials and emails obtained by ABC News.
The officials who were erroneously told they were being RIFed have received emails similar to the one below informing them of the mistake.
The State Department previously reported to Congress that it would aim to reduce its domestic workforce by around 15% as part of the reorganization. However, the senior officials specified that more than half of that goal would be met through "voluntary reductions" -- people who elected to take the deferred resignation plan offered through the "Fork in the Road" emails earlier this year.
The officials also said the department did not have current plans to reduce its force overseas.
"The secretary wants to take this one step at a time," one official said.
The officials also defended the department's decision to cut some highly trained foreign service officers rather than reassign them.
