The State Department will start with mass layoffs of around 1,800 employees in the coming days

The State Department informed American employees on Thursday that it will soon start to fire nearly 2,000 workers after the recent Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with mass employment suppressions in the context of its efforts to reduce the size of federal work.

The agency’s reorganization plan was unveiled for the first time in April by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to eliminate the functions and offices considered to be redundant. In February, President Donald Trump published an executive decree ordering Rubio to reorganize foreign services to ensure that the president’s foreign policy is “faithfully” implemented.

Employees affected by the agency’s “reduction in force” would soon be informed, the assistant secretary for management and resources that Michael Rigas said in an email on Thursday.

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The State Department informed American employees that it would soon be dismissed nearly 2,000 workers. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu agency via Getty Images)

“First and foremost, we would like to thank them for their dedication and service in the United States,” said Rigas in email.

“All the efforts have been made to support our colleagues who leave, including those who have opted for deferred resignation programs … On behalf of the department’s management, we extend our gratitude for your hard work and your commitment to carry out this reorganization and to your continuous dedication to advance national interests ourselves,” he added.

The ministry did not specify on Thursday how many people would be dismissed, but in his plans for the congress sent in May, he had proposed to fire around 1,800 employees of the 18,000 estimated internal staff. It was estimated that 1,575 others took deferred resignations.

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The reorganization plan was unveiled for the first time in April by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Julien de Rosa / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

Plans for Congress have not declared how many of these workers would be from the public service and how external services, but he said that more than 300 of the 734 offices and offices of the ministry would be rationalized, merged or eliminated.

Once the staff have been informed, the ministry “will enter the final phase of its reorganization and focus their attention on the supply of results-based diplomacy,” Rigas told colleagues.

The wait is that layoffs start on Friday.

The spokesman for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, told journalists earlier than the only reason why there had been a delay in reducing the implementation forces was that the courts intervened because she said that mass layoffs would occur quickly.

The wait is that layoffs start on Friday. (Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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“There was a delay – not to our interests, but because of the courts,” noted Bruce. “It’s difficult when you know you have to do something for everyone.”

“When something is too big to function, too bureaucratic, to actually work and to deliver projects or an action, he must change,” she said.

Reuters contributed to this report.