Half of the disposition centers of the epidemic intelligence services of diseases and prevention – a group known as CDC “Disective of the disease” – were part of the Cups on Friday by the Trump administration, told CBS News CBS News.
Cups are part of the thousands of probationaries Workers are released this week through the federal government as part of efforts to shrink The federal workforce supervised by President Trump and the government’s efficiency department, or DOGE, the working group led by billionaire Elon Musk.
The CDC epidemic intelligence service or EIS officers are hired in annual classes thanks to a competitive process.
As part of the scholarship, they serve for two years around the CDC or deployed in health services across the country, often on the front line of public health responses. Many continue to get into the ranks of the agency after being selected for the program.
All the most recent hiring classes to be served in EIA were informed on Friday that they were part of the cuts, officials at CBS News said.
“The country is less safe. These are essential deployable assets to investigate new threats, from Anthrax to Zika,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former leading CDC official and former ancient of the program, in A message.
In total, around 1,270 are released from the agency on 2,800 probation workers. The cuts represent approximately 1 in 10 of the CDC staff.
We do not know who decided which CDC staff cut. While the managers of the agency based in Atlanta were invited to classify the probation hires earlier this month, officials told CBS News that the final decisions on which the staff to be cut had been transmitted by the appointed by the ‘Trump administration outside the agency.
“Many are young staff members of all the training programs who have managed to get a job after their end. Now their dream is canceled,” said a health official.
Much more CDC workers who had been hired as entrepreneurs were also cut by Friday evening, several people said at CBS News, suggesting that the agency’s toll extends far beyond probationary staff. Some CDC teams are largely made up of entrepreneurs.
“Launched for more convenience,” was the reason given to a CDC entrepreneur now unemployed.
Cups are also underway in other health agencies.
The Indian Health Service saw hundreds of staff members, officials said, raising abrupt loss for an agency that has struggled to recruit new suppliers.
Friday, a coalition of tribal nations denounced the “drastic reduction”, according to a letter obtained by CBS News sent to the office of staff management, warning that people would probably die following the cuts.
“Seeing the hard -won progress of recruitment and detention efforts so casual is the very definition of government ineffectiveness and shows contempt for the life of the Amerindians,” said Joshuah Marshall, former senior advisor to the Indian health service, in a message.
A health official said that certain teams from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had also experienced abrupt reductions in the endowment. Important discounts in probationary personnel are also expected at the National Institutes of Health, two officials said.
Not all the staff of the health agency have heard of cuts. The probation workers of the administration of the drug and mental health and the food and drug administration services had not heard of cuts when they were reached on Friday evening.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Services, who oversees the CDC and other health agencies, said on Friday that they supported President Trump’s “wider efforts to restructure and rationalize the federal government”.
“It is a question of ensuring that HHS serves the American people better at the highest and most effective level,” said Andrew Nixon, ministry spokesperson, in a statement.
Friday cuts came a few hours after the new HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had denied his intention to make significant purges in the country’s health agencies.
In an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening after being sworn in to direct the department, Kennedy praised the “lower level employees” which he now leads like “good American patriots and workers”.
“If you have been involved in good science, you have nothing to fear. If you care about public health, you have nothing to fear,” he said.