The Trump administration reportedly will fire thousands of federal employees working in public health and science institutions on Friday as part of an effort to reduce the size of the government.
The latest cuts will affect approximately 5,200 employees working for agencies under the Ministry of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to Stat News.
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As a result of the Purge, only the CDC loses around 1,300 workers. It is unclear how many NIH employees will be fired.
According to STAT News, affected workers will take a month of paid leave without access to the work system prior to their dismissal.
“HHS is taking action to support the President's broader efforts to restructure and streamline the federal government, following the administration's leadership,” a spokesman for the HHS told the post.
“This is to ensure that HHS serves the American people with the highest and most efficient standards,” the person in charge added.
The CDC and NIH did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the post.
Over the past week, an unspecified number of contract workers at HHS institutions have also been informed that their positions, including dozens at NIH's Vaccine Research Center, have been ruled out, according to Stat News.
There have also been changes to leadership levels in several HHS agencies, and more are expected as President Trump's appointment has been confirmed.
Nirav Shah, acting assistant director of CDC, informed the agency staff that his last day was February 28th, Stat News reported.
The Advanced Research Projects Bureau for Health Director Lenny Weglzin LinkedIn Post She was fired on Friday as well.
“For the past two and a half years, I have been awakening each day with both excitement and urgency, and with a sense of urgency to build new, transformative capabilities for the American people,” she said. I am writing. “It started the same way today, but it's over as I no longer have the opportunity to be Director of ARPA-H.”
Dr. Lawrence Tabak, former acting director of the NIH, who confirmed to Congress last year that his agency suddenly resigned Tuesday for funding Congress last year, according to multiple outlets.
Newly minted HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to make sudden cuts in the sector, which employs more than 80,000 people and has a budget of nearly $2 trillion a year.
“Some categories have a whole department, like the nutrition department. [Food and Drug Administration] …It's not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids,” Kennedy said in an interview with MSNBC last November.
RFK Jr. also proposed firing at least 600 NIH employees on day one to eradicate what he calls “corruption” in his agency.
