Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a reorganization plan for the State Department on Thursday that will make many of the changes DOGE suggested there permanent, according to Fox Digital.
More than 300 of the 700 offices and bureaus housed at the State Department will be eliminated or combined as part of the overhaul, which will be the largest since the Cold War era, an official said.
"We have too many godd--- offices," a senior State Department official told Fox News Digital. "We’re trying to shrink offices rather than create them."
Rubio said in April that the overhaul was coming because the agency was "bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission."
In addition to cost-cutting, the streamlining plan will make the agency more responsive to threats and help it to respond quicker when those threats do come.
About 3,400 personnel will be cut from the department's rolls, which is a 15-20% overall reduction in head count.
"We are really addressing a significant portion of the department's domestic offices and sort of merging them, combining them, trying to make them more efficient," the senior State Department official said.
An update on the reductions is expected by July 1.
Only domestic offices will be impacted, not embassies abroad, officials said.
"We're really shifting the focus towards our embassies out in the field, our ambassadors out in the field, giving them the tools… so that they can effectively implement the ‘America First’ diplomacy out there in the field," another senior State Department official told Fox News Digital.
Restructuring "is not designed to either cripple the department or in any way — it’s not even a cost-savings endeavor," Rubio told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on foreign affairs on May 20.
Despite Musk's departure last week, many DOGE employees will continue to be part of Trump's administration, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing.
"Surely the mission of Doge will continue," Leavitt told reporters Thursday. "Many Doge employees are now political employees."
Musk will also be involved with the Trump administration as an advisor; he was limited to 130 days of employment by DOGE as a temporary figure.
