WASHINGTON, United States: A handful of the 1,300 fired State Department employees, cardboard boxes in hand, leave the department headquarters as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to massively downsize the federal government workforce. The entire team of Jose Mercado, who had worked for the State Department for 29 years, was dismissed: “They were folks who were doing good work for the citizens of the United States.” – Saul Loeb/CBS/AFP/AFP