US EditionCDC union blasts lack of transparency from HHS in layoffs
The Trump administration cut about 25% of CDC staff, including key experts and leadership, disrupting public health monitoring during a federal budget shutdown.
- Last week, widespread, chaotic layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention crippled the agency and removed its leadership, former agency scientists warned on Tuesday.
- The Trump administration carried out an initial 1,300 firings late on Friday, followed by about 600 layoffs over the weekend amid the federal budget shutdown.
- Losses included National Center for Injury Prevention and Control staff and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff, removing experts in measles, child health, vital statistics and overseas Ebola outbreaks.
- The Department of Health and Human Services rescinded some firings on Saturday, calling them a `coding error`, but Andrew Nixon said on Monday the layoffs were due to shutdown and nonessential status.
- Looking beyond immediate losses, critics said `about one-quarter of the CDC's workforce has been lost` since the 2025 reduction-in-force began, with some suggesting privatization motives.
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Current and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees and their advocates painted a bleak picture of the public health agency Tuesday after the Trump administration’s most recent reduction-in-force efforts, warning of adverse impacts on public health. In two separate virtual press conferences, those workers and advocates said they’re concerned about the implications of cutting workers from the agency, including staff reductions…
CDC union blasts lack of transparency from HHS in layoffs
Four days after the Trump administration initiated a wave of layoffs across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there’s still no official accounting of how many people were eliminated. Current and former staff, as well as members of the union representing CDC employees at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters, have been crowdsourcing data from impacted…
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Fired CDC staff say layoffs leave US ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future crises
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