02-15-2025, 12:17 AM
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/fede...secretary/
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,200 people on probationary employment — recent hires — across agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be fired that afternoon, according to sources briefed on the meetings. CDC leadership was told the Atlanta-based agency would lose about 1,300 workers. The numbers at the NIH are not clear, but exceptions are being made for certain probationary employees, according to a memo viewed by STAT...
In addition to the probationary workers, an unspecified number of contract workers at the CDC and other Health and Human Services agencies have been informed over the course of the past week that their jobs had been terminated, including dozens at the Vaccine Research Center housed at NIH. Many jobs at these agencies are done by contract workers...
Head of ARPA-H and Biden appointee Renee Wegrzyn told staff Friday morning that she was fired, a source told STAT. The agency, established in 2022 by Biden to work with the private sector on breakthrough medical technology, employs less than 200 workers. Because of the agency’s newness, most employees are considered probationary and could be targeted for layoffs.
...Experts have warned that mass layoffs or resignations could severely disrupt work at the FDA and other agencies. Several senior leaders left even before Kennedy’s confirmation — top NIH officials Larry Tabak and Michael Lauer announced plans to leave earlier this week. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the top drug regulator at the FDA, left in January. Others worry that policies like interrupting grant reviews and slashing overhead research payments will cause a broader brain drain across U.S. academia.
Supposedly, 500+ federal workers were fired today from one agency that I work with.
I personally know at least half dozen federal workers who were fired today.
Guessing that I'll be hearing about many more in the coming days.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,200 people on probationary employment — recent hires — across agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be fired that afternoon, according to sources briefed on the meetings. CDC leadership was told the Atlanta-based agency would lose about 1,300 workers. The numbers at the NIH are not clear, but exceptions are being made for certain probationary employees, according to a memo viewed by STAT...
In addition to the probationary workers, an unspecified number of contract workers at the CDC and other Health and Human Services agencies have been informed over the course of the past week that their jobs had been terminated, including dozens at the Vaccine Research Center housed at NIH. Many jobs at these agencies are done by contract workers...
Head of ARPA-H and Biden appointee Renee Wegrzyn told staff Friday morning that she was fired, a source told STAT. The agency, established in 2022 by Biden to work with the private sector on breakthrough medical technology, employs less than 200 workers. Because of the agency’s newness, most employees are considered probationary and could be targeted for layoffs.
...Experts have warned that mass layoffs or resignations could severely disrupt work at the FDA and other agencies. Several senior leaders left even before Kennedy’s confirmation — top NIH officials Larry Tabak and Michael Lauer announced plans to leave earlier this week. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the top drug regulator at the FDA, left in January. Others worry that policies like interrupting grant reviews and slashing overhead research payments will cause a broader brain drain across U.S. academia.
Supposedly, 500+ federal workers were fired today from one agency that I work with.
I personally know at least half dozen federal workers who were fired today.
Guessing that I'll be hearing about many more in the coming days.
