The D Brief: State’s cuts; Trans ban, in effect; Concerns about Army plan; B-52s join B-2s; And a bit more.

The State Department aims to cut substantially more employees than generally expected: some 3,400 instead of roughly 2,000, report GovExec’s Eric Katz and Nextgov’s David Dimolfetta. That's because the 700 jobs that will be eliminated in a departmental reorganization will not count toward the planned 15-percent reduction in the department's roughly 17,000-person domestic workforce, and because foreign service officers whose jobs are eliminated are not expected to be permitted to appl