By now, everyone should be fully aware that President Donald Trump is most certainly not afraid to fire someone -- or a large group of people at once.
According to Breitbart, in Trump's effort to shrink a "bloated" U.S. government, the State Department, at Trump's direction, is firing a staggering 1300 workers as part of a massive reorganization strategy.
The AP broke the story, reporting that a high-level anonymous source familiar with the situation said that pink slips will be handed out to "1,107 civil servants and nearly 250 foreign service officers with assignments inside the United States."
Some of those affected by the mass firing will first be placed on leave and then formally terminated from their positions, a move that has been celebrated by Trump supporters and Republicans who are on board with cutting government waste.
The memo obtained by the AP made it crystal clear what the State Department is doing with the 1300 or so workers.
“Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press," the outlet reported.
The move was described as a "departmental reorganization" in an effort to streamline "domestic operations."
It added, "In connection with the departmental reorganization … the department is streamlining domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities. Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices, and offices where considerable efficiencies may be found from centralization or consolidation of functions and responsibilities."
Videos of some of the fired workers leaving the facility went viral across social media.
Scenes from the State Dept, showing employees leaving HQ after being fired in the mass cuts of 1300 employees today.
The recently fired bureaucrats were greeted to a round of applause as they carried their supplies out.
Cleaning house. pic.twitter.com/BK4rQHWsOz
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) July 12, 2025
Users across social media weighed in on the news of the mass firings.
"@realDonaldTrump Great job cleaning house, a lot more needs to go. did you know that during covid, it was found that the government could run efficiently on about 25% of the people in government? what a lot of past DEMS did was hire all their Dem party & they destroyed the US," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Note that even after the layoffs nobody at this agency has to be at his/her/zir/their desk. Everyone has time to hang out in the lobby in and cheer for the departing."
It'll be fascinating to see what department and how many employees get cut next.
