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https://www.europesays.com/news/25326/ Conservative Group’s Influence Inside the State Department Raises Alarms #bass #ChristopherT(1963) #DiplomaticService #DiversityInitiatives #EmbassiesAndConsulates #ForeignService(US) #GregoryW #Headlines #HeritageFoundation #HiringAndPromotion #JohnR #Landau #Marco #Meeks #News #rubio #StateDepartment #TopStories #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

Former career #diplomat who served as director of the #CIA, deputy Secretary of #State, served 32 years in the #UnitedStates #ForeignService & 7 years as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International #Peace William J. Burns writes ‘A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants’

“You all deserved better.”

#GiftArticle #Trump #RevengePolitics #retribution #CivilServants #PublicService #MassLayoffs #labor #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/trump-retribution-public-servants/683914/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxWgvPL95XrR70qjeawHGu7Y

The total reduction in the workforce [#RIF] will be ~3k, including the *voluntary* departures, acc/to the notice & a senior #State Dept ofcl, out of the 18k employees based in the #US.

The move is the first step of a restructuring that #Trump has sought to ensure US #ForeignPolicy is aligned with his "America First" agenda. Fmr diplomats & experts say the firing of #ForeignService officers risks America's ability to counter the growing assertiveness from adversaries such as #China & #Russia.

#AustinTice, a former Marine who graduated from the #Georgetown School of #ForeignService & was also enrolled in #law school there, was abducted in August 2012 after traveling to a suburb of Damascus. Weeks later, he appeared blindfolded in a video w/masked men carrying assault rifles. Former American ofcls believe that the video might have been a ruse to blame militants for his abduction.

#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw

A federal judge on Friday said he would order the #Trump admin to halt elements of its attempt to shut down #USAID.

Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, said after a hearing that he would issue a temporary #RestrainingOrder pausing the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees & a plan to withdraw the agency’s overseas workers.

The lawsuit filed was by the largest #union representing #FederalWorkers & the union representing #ForeignService Officers.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/07/us/trump-administration-updates/judge-will-freeze-elements-of-trump-plan-to-shut-down-usaid?smid=url-share