# The US State Department began firing more than one-thousand-350 employees Friday. This comes as president Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of his diplomatic corps. The layoffs affect one-thousand-107 civil service and 246 foreign service officers based in the United States. This comes at a time when Washington is grappling with multiple crises on the world stage: Russia’s war in Ukraine, the almost two-year-long Gaza conflict, and the Middle East on edge due to high tension between Israel and Iran.
US State Department start laying off more than 1350 workers in Trump shake up of diplomatic corps