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'It's sort of scary': Officials flag surprising revelations from deep State Department cuts

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When senior State Department officials set out to trim the agency in the "biggest reorganization since the Cold War," they couldn’t get a total headcount on employees — for months, they say."It took us three months to get a list of the people that actually work in the building," one senior State Department official told reporters during a briefing at Foggy Bottom on Monday, defending the job cuts that detractors have claimed will damage U.S. diplomacy. "They couldn't tell you how many people worked here," the official said. "It’s sort of scary as a taxpayer and as a public servant to think tha...

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