Along with rescissions hitting foreign aid, the new round of firings shows Trump is still bent on tearing down bipartisan foreign-policy traditions.

The layoffs affect 1,107 civil service employees and 246 foreign service officers based in the United States, according to internal department notices and a senior official.

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