Nearly half of passport services employees return as State Dept. begins reopening




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Summary: The State Department has reopened more than a dozen passport service offices across the country as part of its Phase One reopening plan. Those reopenings brought back nearly half the passport services workforce to confront a backlog of nearly two million passport applications that have accumulated since March. But the State Department has also sent in employees from other parts of the agency to help address the backlog. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices