Quarter of CDC staff targeted by layoff notices: Union

This agency that’s supposed to protect America just lost a quarter of its people

The Trump administration has escalated its campaign to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, seizing the opportunity to further slash the already diminished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Tuesday, the union that represents workers at the CDC said that the agency’s workforce has already been reduced by a quarter since the beginning of the year. During the shutdown, the public health agency, which steered U.S. health…

'A state of trauma’: CDC employees fired by Trump think the cruelty is the point

It began with four words posted shortly before 12:30pm on Friday, Oct. 10.The RIFs have begun, Russ Vought a key Project 2025 author turned Office of Management and Budget director spearheading the Trump administrations effort to reshape the federal workforce wrote on X.By the end of the day, according to administration sources and court records, upwards of 4,200 government employees had received notices of termination -- formally known within t…

Quarter of CDC staff targeted by layoff notices: Union

Nearly a quarter of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been removed from the agency through reduction in force (RIF) notices this year, according to the union representing federal workers. With the most recent round of layoffs this past weekend, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2883 estimates…

CDC workforce is down 33% since Trump’s start, per union

Today's health news covers CDC workforce down 33% since Trump’s start, comparing Medicare plans, and North Carolina's biotech rise.

Trump Administration Layoffs Have Decimated CDC Workforce By 24%

Union officials say the sweeping job losses could undermine the CDC’s capacity to protect public health.