Johns Hopkins University is feeling the brunt of the Trump administration’s efforts to streamline the federal government, announcing Thursday it will slash more than 2,000 jobs in the U.S. and abroad.

The private university in Baltimore said it will cut 1,975 positions in 44 countries and 247 in the U.S. from its global public health nonprofit Jhpiego, its Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs, and its medical school, The Wall Street Journal reported.

U.S.-based workers have at least 60 days before the job changes take effect, the Washington Post reported, adding the university said it also furloughed roughly 100 more workers.

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