No State Department official publicly said when the first notices for the planned layoffs would be sent, but the widespread expectation is for the terminations to start as soon as Friday.

A recent decision by a federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked a controversial Trump-era rule that sought to restrict Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood. The rule, part of a larger fiscal bill signed by former President Donald Trump,

The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to employees Friday morning.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with plans to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education that were blocked by a federal judge, granting an emergency application from the administration that blocks the federal judge's ruling.

The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.

California-based District Judge Susan Illston rejected that argument, however, and on June 13 issued a new order demanding State not proceed with planned layoffs. A Justice Department attorney ...

Mass layoffs: The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that layoffs would begin “soon,” as part of a major reorganization plan unveiled in May by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Diplomats said that senior department officials had told them to expect layoff notices as soon as Friday morning. Read more ›

Employees of the U.S. State Department could receive a layoff notice via email very soon as part of the Trump administration's plan to downsize the government.