{"id":35291,"date":"2025-03-07T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/us-plans-to-close-european-consulates-and-cut-state-department-workforce\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:01:03","slug":"us-plans-to-close-european-consulates-and-cut-state-department-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/us-plans-to-close-european-consulates-and-cut-state-department-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans to close European consulates and cut state department workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department also looks into merging some bureaus in Washington amid Trump effort to slash US government<\/p>\n<p>The US state department is preparing to shut down a number of consulates that are mainly in western Europe in the coming months and looking to reduce its workforce globally, multiple US officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The state department is also looking into potentially merging a number of its expert bureaus at its headquarters in Washington that are working in areas such as human rights, refugees, global criminal justice, women\u2019s issues and efforts to counter human trafficking, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/06\/us-european-consulates-state-department\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department also looks into merging some bureaus in Washington amid Trump effort to slash US government The US state department is preparing to shut down a number of consulates that are mainly in western Europe in the coming months and looking to reduce its workforce globally, multiple US officials said on Thursday. The state &#8230; <a title=\"US plans to close European consulates and cut state department workforce\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/us-plans-to-close-european-consulates-and-cut-state-department-workforce\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US plans to close European consulates and cut state department workforce\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}