Layoffs begin at HHS, including at FDA and CDC
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Mass layoffs began Tuesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, the first steps in a plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human...
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The lawsuit argues the cuts are illegal and puts public health across the country at risk.
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Former CDC director Tom Frieden joins to discuss the impact.
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CDC cuts threaten to set back nation’s health, critics say
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The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world’s premier public health age...
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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.
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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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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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered no new details Wednesday about his massive restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the day after thousands of layoffs ricocheted through its agencies, hollowing out entire offices around the country in some cases.
The funding slash is part of a number of cuts that new Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made, including the canceling of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for research into vaccine hesitancy, LGBTQ populations and supporting HIV prevention.
Employees at the HHS regional office and a CDC occupational safety laboratory in Spokane have been abruptly fired, and Head Start staff are on administrative leave.
The FDA inspects and sets the safety standards for medication, tobacco, and food in the US. It is responsible, for example, for announcing the recall of contaminated food that may present a danger to the public, such as in the recent recalls of cookie dough and cucumbers. The agency is set to lose 3,500 employees.
Pennsylvania has joined 22 other states in suing the federal government for canceled funding from the U.S. Health & Human Services department.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 23 states in suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Sec. Robert F. Kennedy for terminating nearly $11 billion in “critical” public health grants nationwide,
On Monday night, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), alongside the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), joined a lawsuit to block the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s new policy to cap Facilities and Administrative (F&A) cost reimbursements at 15% for federally funded research grants.
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