Healthcare DIVE October 10, 2025
“HHS employees across multiple divisions have received reduction-in-force notices,” an administration spokesperson confirmed. It’s a significant escalation of normal shutdown procedures.
Dive Brief:
- The Trump administration has started laying off federal employees, following through on a threat to further decimate the federal workforce in event of a government shutdown, administration officials have confirmed.
- That includes at the HHS, a department spokesperson said. They did not share how many workers are being fired or in what agencies, though said the reduction-in-force is affecting multiple divisions.
- Layoffs are not typical during a shutdown, and could further hamper operations at the massive federal healthcare department, which has already lost thousands of employees this year.
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