Among those initially cut were staff responsible for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a critical vehicle for disseminating public health findings.

In the second week of the U.S. government shutdown, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified some 1,300 employees they would be laid off — then rescinded hundreds of those notices within hours, a person familiar with the matter said.

The Trump administration is set to lay off entire offices and hundreds of CDC workers as part of mass job cuts during the federal shutdown, four sources told Reuters on Saturday.

A crowd-sourced list from CDC employees, reviewed by Reuters, suggested several units, including the entire Washington office, were targeted for termination. Two sources within the CDC and two at other health agencies confirmed the list’s validity.

  • tea@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    I think they are fucking up their blame game. They can say “radical leftists are shutting down the government for political purposes” on .gov websites all they want, but they are owning the shutdown if they continue to try to use it to do political stunts like mass firings as retaliation. They lose the blame game if they keep this up.