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Workers across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of the agency from many areas of disease ...
The New York Times |
Federal agencies have accelerated their efforts to cut thousands of jobs, offering buyouts and eliminating entire offices as the Trump administration’s deadline to downsize approaches.
The New York Times |
The current presidential administration’s cuts to the N.I.H. budget and other similar interventions will cost our country many lives, an untenable price to pay.

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These CDC Teams Were Hardest Hit by Trump's Mass Layoffs
The dust of the Trump administration's reorganization of HHS is still settling, but it's clear that several offices and divisions of the CDC were particularly hard hit by the reduction-in-force (RIF) that launched on April Fool's Day.
Trump admin live updates: Layoffs begin at HHS, including at the FDA and CDC
President Donald Trump said Monday he would "love" to run against former President Barack Obama when asked about a hypothetical matchup. Though the Constitution prevents a third term in office, Trump did not rule out seeking one when asked by NBC on Sunday.
At CDC, Trump administration’s job cuts wipe out wide array of specialists
Workers across the CDC were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of the agency from many areas of disease prevention.
With Painful Layoffs Ahead, Agencies Push Incentives to Quit
Another round of “deferred resignation” offers is part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up effort to rapidly downsize the government.
Former FDA head Califf: Trump administration actions are an effort 'to destroy the FDA'
The FDA saw a significant reduction in force Tuesday, and former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the industry is going to face significant uncertainty.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Layoffs of 10,000 Government Health Workers Begin
Switzer Memorial Building in Washington on Tuesday.Credit...Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Health job cuts: The Trump administration laid off thousands of federal health workers, dismissing senior leaders and top scientists in a purge that outside experts and former officials said would cause an immeasurable loss of expertise.
Mass Layoffs as Agencies Are Gutted
Responses to the mass firings in the federal government. Also: Cory Booker’s speech; talk of a third Trump term; Republicans and Ukraine; a letter to Canada.
Kennedy remains quiet on 10,000 jobs lost at the nation's top health department
Kennedy's silence is prompting questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike, with a bipartisan request for President Donald Trump's health secretary to appear before a Senate committee next week to explain the cuts.
Dem AGs take Trump-Kennedy HHS to court over cuts to COVID-era grants
Democratic AGs are suing the Trump administration over "unlawful" cuts to public health agency grants to their states that were earmarked during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'
A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A city responding to a lead crisis in local schools reached out to the CDC for help. Now, they fear they won’t get it
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health agencies this week.
RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA's public records teams, despite "transparency" promises
It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.
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Trump Finally Takes Revenge on CDC With Total Bloodbath
Trump’s global tariff war is expected to affect just about every sector of life for the average American.
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging,
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DOGE Will Review NIH Grant Notices; CDC Stifles Measles Report; NSF Grants Halved
The directive applies to Notices of Funding Opportunities, or NOFOs, which are issued to solicit applications for all types of grants. NIH has posted no new NOFOs since Jan. 22, when the Trump administration imposed an HHS-wide communications pause, Science reported.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
CDC cuts threaten to set back the nation’s health, critics say
The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.
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