A 15% cut to domestic staff will result in more than 2,000 employees losing their jobs — including around 700 at the department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters

Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department on Tuesday, with plans to reduce staff in the U.S. by 15% while closing and consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide as part of the Trump administration's “America First” mandate.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced a comprehensive restructuring of his "bloated" department. Rubio said that "redundant offices" would be removed and that "non-statutory programs" that did not align with the country's core national interests would be cut.