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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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Tuesday marked the beginning of the end for the federal government’s public health authorities, with a 5am wave of reduction-in-force (RIF) emails placing thousands of employees on notice for imminent...

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