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White House Reported Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers, including NIH, CDC, Medicare/Medicaid services.
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Thu, 2025-02-06 17:34 — mike kraft
Exclusive | White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers The executive order could come as soon as next week, if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans, according to people familiar with the matter. WSJ
The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Under the order, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies would have to cut a certain percentage of employees.
The order could come as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said, after workers have an opportunity to take a buyout. The terms of the order haven’t been finalized, however, and the White House could still decide against going forward with the plans.
The job cuts under consideration would affect the Department of Health and Human Services, which employs more than 80,000 people and includes the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in addition to the FDA and CDC.
The agencies are responsible for a range of functions, from approving new drugs to tracing bird-flu outbreaks and researching cancer. A loss of staff could affect the efforts depending on which workers are cut and whether they are concentrated in particular areas.
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