The State Department alone went from 57,340 in 2007 to 72, 859 in 2015 to 80,214 in 2024 and yet there is hysteria about a cut of 1350 and how devastating it is. It’s not nearly enough. The more the government expands, the more liberty we lose.
The 1,300 reduction represents just 1.6% of total staff, primarily through attrition in redundant administrative roles per the 2024 Workforce Optimization Initiative. However, H.R. 10393 allocated $55M specifically for the Joint Autonomy Office, creating 214 new AI/emerging tech positions to offset cuts.
It has become a little leaner and more appropriately staffed.
The ideological puppets in the department trying to push woke on the world need to go and hopefully will.
Looking at State Department documents, it appears the department went from 57,340 total employees in 2007 to 72,895 in 2015 to 80,214 in 2024. So it grew by nearly 23,000 employees before the 'devastating' cut of 1,300. pic.twitter.com/KCIUlE6nVN
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 12, 2025
The State Department has always been a cesspool of low-T soy-fueled limp-wristed leftist ideologues undermining the nation. Based on the “resistance” notes left behind and the knobs forming a clap/hug line, 1300 is too few.
Bet a hamburger 99%+ of the new hires are democrats, and mostly woke, whatever that means. The dimwits “peaceful” army. And as is stated below by SH, leeches.
The entire federal government needs to be independently audited to determine appropriate staffing levels for each agency and cabinet department. It is no wonder yearly federal deficits are running $2 Trillion. One would have thought this would have been at or near to the top of DOGE’s ‘Day One’ list, given the out-of-control spending practices of Democrats administrations.
Great idea. Let’s demand an independent staffing audit of one agency and see what happens. That will give us a picture of the absurd overload. One reason for the labor shortage of industry is the hoarding of potential employees by the government. The government over pays and attracts the best and the brightest, yet they are a drain on, rather… Read more »
And then there is the fact that much of what these State Department bureaucrats are hired to do is not only non-essential, but non-productive, damaging and utterly worthless, such as advancing causes like the ‘woke’ agenda or outright lies like man-caused ‘climate change’.