75,547 employees
The Department of State has 75,547 employees (2018), including 13,855 Foreign Service Officers and 49,734 Locally Employed Staff, whose duties are primarily serving overseas. In addition, 10,171 employees form part of the predominantly domestic Civil Service.
when push comes to shove....over 100,000 policy wonks.
Makes you wonder how this can ever be corrected. And I would imagine that each department has plenty of employees with the same outlook. I can’t even begin to imagine how this can be dismantled and reassembled properly.