STAT October 15, 2025
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CDC workforce is down 33% since Trump’s start, per union
The union representing CDC employees estimated Tuesday that the Atlanta-based agency’s workforce has been reduced by 33% since the Trump administration took office. That figure represents people who have been laid off in the three rounds (so far) of reduction-in-force notices, staffers let go because they were on probation or whose term contracts were not renewed, and employees enticed to take early retirement through the “Fork in the Road” offer.
More than 1,300 new layoff notices were issued Friday night, but about 700 of those workers were informed Saturday they’d been victims of a “coding error” and weren’t losing their jobs...
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