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Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being ...
CDC cuts threaten to set back the nation’s health, critics say
The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.
Local health departments brace for layoffs, cuts after CDC funding slashed
The funding slash is part of a number of cuts that new Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made, ...
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Public Health Groups Decry HHS Firings, Grant Cuts
According to the latest 42-page list from HHS of grants terminated under the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) purges, almost $9 billion that was expected to be ...
Trump’s cruel calculus on public health is slashing lifelines for the most vulnerable
Andrew Nixon, director of communications at Health and Human Services, said “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no ...
Over $3.7 million in federal funding for public health programs in Oakland County cut
The programs were dedicated to disease surveillance and infeciton prevention. Five employees were told not to report for work ...
Maddow Blog | RFK Jr. targets the nation’s public health infrastructure with brutal layoffs and cuts
The public knew that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would pursue a radical agenda, but that doesn't make the latest developments any ...
A city responding to a lead crisis in local schools reached out to the CDC for help. Now, they fear they won’t get it
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health ...
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Decimation of HHS comms, FOIA offices will leave Americans in the dark about urgent health matters
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office promising ‘radical transparency.’ His plan to reshape the agency is indeed ...
Inside Trump and RFK Jr.’s Health Agency ‘Bloodbath’
Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are ...
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New York City’s health department just lost $100 million in federal funds. That has consequences
With $100 million in federal funds suddenly revoked, New York City’s acting health commissioner says defense against ...
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These CDC Teams Were Hardest Hit by Trump's Mass Layoffs
The dust of the Trump administration's reorganization of HHS is still settling, but it's clear that several offices and ...