When Marco Rubio signed on as Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, he went into the job “with eyes wide open,” according to a ...

She said “This is both an honour and a great responsibility. As aspiring Foreign Service Officers, you must always conduct yourselves with dignity, professionalism, and a strong sense of duty.

you can lose your job and get kicked out if you do the wrong things." All USAID foreign service officers are confirmed by the U.S. Senate and every federal employee swears an oath to the Constitution.

Gathungu found that the department declared 16 vacancies for Foreign Service Officers III through a letter to the Public Service Commission on October 11, 2023. The US remains the largest source ...

the Federal Labor Relations Authority or the appropriate analogs for Foreign Service officers. Nichols’ decision dissolves the existing temporary restraining order that blocked the ...

In a 26-page order, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found that two unions representing thousands of foreign service officers had failed to demonstrate how personnel changes at USAID would cause ...

The mass firings are part of a series of layoffs of agency employees by the Trump administration during a broad effort to halt almost all U.S. foreign aid using a blanket freeze. The moves came ...

A Trump admin memo argues the U.S. foreign aid structure is too broad, too costly and failed to reduce some nations' ...

Of the rest, about 14,000 are trained diplomats who rotate overseas, called Foreign Service officers and specialists, and 10,000 are members of the Civil Service and work mostly out of Washington.

Thousands of fired federal workers offer appealing experience and skills -- to the private sector and foreign adversaries alike, experts tell ABC News.

The Trump administration’s rapid slashing of the government workforce creates fertile ground for foreign adversaries to recruit disgruntled staffers who know some of the nation’s most closely guarded ...

The administrative office for the federal courts advised ... were firing 2,000 workers and putting up to thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires around the world on paid ...