Politico February 18, 2025
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TURMOIL AT HHS — The past weekend brought a chaotic purge of the federal workforce across the nation’s health agencies, POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim report.
The Trump administration’s mass firings hit staffers at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the office responsible for emergency preparedness and response, several people with knowledge of the firings told POLITICO.
The cuts were part of the larger culling of about 3,600 probationary employees across HHS that began earlier last week — primarily among staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
People inside the agencies countered the Trump administration’s characterization of the firings.
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