In light of a recent Supreme Court ruling, the State Department announced on Thursday it would soon lay off nearly 2,000 employees.

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Fox News has the details:

The agency’s reorganization plan was first unveiled in April by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to eliminate functions and offices the department considered to be redundant. In February, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing Rubio to revamp the foreign service to ensure that the president’s foreign policy is “faithfully” implemented.

Employees affected by the agency’s “reduction in force” would be notified soon, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Michael Rigas told employees in an email on Thursday.

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The department did not specify on Thursday how many people would be fired, but in its plans to Congress sent in May, it had proposed laying off about 1,800 employees of the 18,000 estimated domestic workforce. Another 1,575 were estimated to have taken deferred resignations.

In addition to the layoffs, Fox notes that the entire department will be reformed as well, with over 300 of the 734 bureaus and offices being either streamlines, merged, or eliminated.

In some ways, these layoffs are an answer to our prayers. We did, after all, pray for reform and reduction in our federal government earlier this year. On the other hand, these layoffs may result in families losing incomes and households losing providers.

Let’s pray into this situation. Let’s pray that God would guide the layoff process, and that he would provide for the families and households affected by this decision.

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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)