With new cuts at CDC, some fear there's 'nobody to answer the phone'

"the RIFs have begun."

"We have no idea why certain programs were eliminated and others were saved,"

"At this point, it seems like the chaos and lack of transparency is the point."

"data discrepancies and processing errors."

Around 600 CDC employees were cut over a long weekend as part of an administration effort to reduce the federal workforce during a government shutdown. More than 1,300 employees were initially notified of layoffs on Friday, many while furloughed, after Russell Vought posted the RIFs have begun on X. About 700 employees received revocations of those reduction-in-force notices the next day. Some firings and rapid rescindments were attributed by HHS to data discrepancies and processing errors. Cuts affected staff who brief Congress, work on health statistics and chronic disease, CDC library and support staff, mental health responders, and HR employees. HHS declined to confirm numbers.

Read at www.npr.org