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HHS Workforce Purge Continues
Source: Politico Pulse, Kelly Hooper and Chelsea Cirruzzo
Last weekend brought a chaotic purge of the federal workforce across the nation’s health agencies. The Trump administration’s mass firings hit staffers at the FDA, CMS and the office responsible for emergency preparedness and response. 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 CDC and NIH.
The employees impacted by the cuts included those working on Medicare and Medicaid initiatives aimed at improving care for beneficiaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the CMS office that oversees Obamacare. At the FDA, cuts included officials in divisions that regulate prescription drugs and medical devices and some staff who review medical device products.
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