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trump administration scrambling to get rehired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Employees who were let go under the President’s promise to eliminate federal workforce In response to the government shutdown.
Friday’s shooting was part of this More than 4,000 government jobs Cuts by the Trump administration, according to Washington PostMany of those who left were dealing with serious illnesses measles And Ebola,
After new York Times And other outlets reported on the dismissals of CDC employees, with a federal health official telling the outlet that many of the people fired were terminated in error, and would be brought back.
spoke to the officer Times Anonymously.
Some of the CDC officials’ cuts included “the top two leaders of the federal measles response team”, despite battling measles outbreaks across the country. Times Report.
many times Other parts of the agency were also affected, the report said:
· Staff working to combat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo were also cut.
· A team supporting infectious disease surveillance was dismissed.
· Agency leaders who oversaw vaccinations and respiratory diseases were fired as flu season began.
· Some people from CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, who are dispatched to outbreak sites and described as “disease detectives,” were let go.
· A team member who compiles the agency’s morbidity and mortality weekly reports, which document various CDC recommendations and outbreak updates, was laid off.
· In the agency’s Forecasting Center, which helps manage public health emergencies, the administration disbanded a division focused on technology and innovation.
“This is going to be devastating for Americans and the global community,” Dr. Debra Howry, who served as the CDC’s chief medical officer before resigning in August in protest of the administration’s policies, told the outlet.
He said the Trump administration is “destroying public health.”
“When you’re losing the ability to respond to outbreaks like this, people’s lives are at risk,” he said.
officer talking to Times Said that some employees working on MMWR publications were laid off “by mistake due to misclassification” of their job codes and that those employees would be reinstated. The source also reportedly said that anyone working to combat measles or Ebola would be reinstated.
According to the outlet, the number of workers being brought back could be in the hundreds, though they did not say when those individuals would return to work.
Trump and his Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services robert f kennedy Have dealt with CDC general ridicule Ever since the President returned to office.
after a the gunman opened fire At CDC headquarters in Atlanta to express his opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine — a vaccine that Kennedy had vocally criticized before asking Trump for a position in his government — Trump said nothing in defense of the agency.
Since his appointment as head of DHS, Kennedy The entire 17-member CDC vaccine advisory board was fired. And replaced them with people who are sympathetic to his views on vaccines. The same month that the shooting occurred, Kennedy CDC Director Susan Monarez is fired,
Monarez said he was fired because he refused to approve Kennedy’s vaccine policies without scientifically reviewing his views.
This is also not the first time that the Trump administration has fired people working on Ebola prevention. When Tesla CEO Elon Musk was still in the President’s favor and heading the Department of Government Efficiency, he USAID members fired by mistake Who were working on Ebola aid and prevention projects.
After admitting the mistake, the team was reportedly rehired.
Independent The White House and CDC have been contacted for comment.