State Department to offer early retirement buyouts: report

[riversedge]

Source: the hill




By Mallory Shelbourne - 11/11/17 01:15 PM EST
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The New York Times on Saturday reported that the State Department will give the buyouts to the first 641 personnel who say they will depart by April.

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Barbara Stephenson, the president of the American Foreign Service Association, slammed the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce senior staff at the State Department, arguing doing so will hurt American diplomacy.

"The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate, and tangible effect on the capacity of the United States to shape world events," Stephenson wrote in a column.

Tillerson has also denied reports that morale at the State Department is low.

"I walk the halls, people smile," Tillerson said in an interview last month. "If it’s as bad as it seems to be described, I’m not seeing it, I’m not getting it.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/359925-state-department-to-offer-early-retirement-buyouts-report

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I suspect I would smile at my boss as he walked by also.

[Angry Dragon]

1. CLUELESS in DC

[keithbvadu2]

2. Just Trump doing his master's (Putin) bidding.

Just Trump doing his master's (Putin) bidding.

You can bet Putin is not sabotaging his country's foreign relations.

PUTUS
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http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/DFW_photo/media/cGF0aDovUFVUVVNfenBzeGNsb2NibWYuanBn/?ref=

[Honeycombe8]

12. You can say that again. This is all about MONEY FOR THEIR TAX CUTS.

They need to siphon more money from the federal budget to lessen the deficit from the huge tax cuts for the wealthy.

This is ALL this Congress and administration are about.

[jaysunb]

3. Gutting our Government n/t

[keithbvadu2]

4. Losing (dumping) all that experience.

Foreign service officer warns of 'serious, immediate, and tangible' threat to U.S. world leadership

Losing (dumping) all that experience.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/8/1713868/-Foreign-service-officer-warns-of-serious-immediate-and-tangible-threat-to-U-S-world-leadership

[mulsh]

5. Running government like a business; right into the ground. Must have a bunch of bright MBA

types calling the enforcing Putin's "America First" marching orders.

[EarthFirst]

6. Combine this with 60% vacancy of Ambassadorships worldwide...

...and we’re leaving ourselves in very vulnerable positions.

[Ccarmona]

8. Its Intentional

The path to a Dictatorship is much easier with career government personnel out of the way.

[mamas]

7. They have to get that money for tax cuts from somewhere. Massive buyouts will be everywhere.

[Frustratedlady]

9. Cutting out more of those guarding the hen house?

How much insider information comes through these career employees? I'm sure they hear scuttlebutt they pass on to their superiors from around the world. To plan on 641 (odd number) personnel to take them up on the deal is curious. Where did they come up with that number? Does that number fulfill a certain amount of savings? How many employees would be left?

A change this big should be looked at by Congress, or do the oversee anything anymore beyond elections and investigations? Hard to tell.

[Demit]

10. The answers to your questions are at the link

the NYT link in the OP's story explains the numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/state-department-buyouts.html?mtrref=undefined&_r=0

[Crash2Parties]

11. Dear Mr. Tillerson: You're not seeing it, You're not getting it.