Exclusive-Trump administration begins mass layoffs at health agencies, sources say

By Leah Douglas and Marisa Taylor

(Reuters) -The Trump medication fired unit astatine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and astatine the Food and Drug Administration connected Tuesday, arsenic it embarked connected its program to chopped 10,000 jobs astatine the Department of Health and Human Services, according to 2 sources acquainted with the situation.

An FDA worker said unit had to contiguous their badges astatine the gathering entranceway and those who had been fired were fixed a summons and told to instrumentality home, according to 1 source.

At the CDC, fired unit worked astatine National Center for Environmental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, according to the 2nd source.

Officials astatine the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were not instantly disposable for comment.

The cuts are portion of a wide program by President Donald Trump and billionaire state Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels successful national departments and agencies.

(Reporting by Leah DouglasEditing by Caroline Humer and Frances Kerry)