Federal health workers brace for layoffs as White House instructs HHS to rank workers
Source: The Independent
Friday 07 February 2025 10:29 EST
Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services are bracing for layoffs across the vast public health agency, as Donald Trump’s administration instructs federal health officials to rank their essential workers and those who are deemed less essential.
Agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could be forced to cut a certain percentage of employees under the directive, gutting critical public health agencies under the sprawling cabinet-level department. Leaders were also asked to justify why certain employees should be retained.
A White House spokesperson denied to The Independent that there are any executive orders underway related to HHS, following reports, though it remains unclear what the administration intends to do with the information it collects.
Managers at the CDC were told to rank 10 percent of their probationary staff as mission-critical, 50 percent as important and 40 percent as not mission-critical, according to The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the matter. Those reports were due Thursday.
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