"The cuts have hit offices including the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the National Center for Health Statistics and the CDC's Washington office, which is the channel for communications with Congress, sources said. Also hit was the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which supports Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, and an ethics office that reviews conflicts of interest, Debra Houry, who recently resigned as the agency's chief medical officer, told Axios."
"Between the lines: The CDC layoffs come on top of steep cuts Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered earlier this year, and after a gunman in August opened first on CDC headquarters in Atlanta in what health workers partly blame on Kennedy's inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation. The cuts to the CDC's injury center claimed 132 workers, including an operations team that administers grants to states and localities, a science team that also handled academic research awards."
Federal funding shutdown-related layoffs eliminated staff across multiple CDC units, including the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the National Center for Health Statistics, the CDC Washington communications office, NHANES, and an ethics office. Two unions condemned the firings as unlawful and accused the president of politicizing the civil service. The cuts compounded earlier reductions ordered by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and followed a violent shooting at CDC headquarters. The injury center lost 132 workers across operations, science, and policy teams. Some initial terminations, such as at the Epidemic Intelligence Service and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff, were later rescinded.
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