The State Department has asked senior officials at U.S. embassies worldwide to provide comprehensive lists of all employees and their employment status as part of a process of planned staff reductions.

The request includes tenured, untenured, and temporary duty assignments; and embassies will be required to cut American staff and employees hired from the location where the embassy is based, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

The directive was issued shortly before President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon that compelled State Department staff to comply with his administration’s foreign policy goals.

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