US shutdown forces 4000 layoffs
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The U.S. government laid off at least 4,000 federal workers after the shutdown, hitting Treasury, Health and Education departments hardest, and President Trump blamed Democrats.
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
When the concentration camps become forced labor camps the circle will be closed
We’re in a health care crisis.
Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.
15 million people will lose their health care.
Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.
Democrats are fighting to stop this.
Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.
15 million people will lose their health care.
Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.
Democrats are fighting to stop this.
Don’t worry. These health experts will be reassigned to administer Hegseth Botox injections
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I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.
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The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.
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BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.
New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.
Unserious people cause real-world harm.
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Unserious people cause real-world harm.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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These layoffs and then rehires are not the first ones of this Admin and seem to be equal parts:
-Complete incompetence and lack of understanding of the agency
-Taking on Silicon Valley “move fast and break things” attitudes
-Testing the limits to see if there is significant pushback
-Complete incompetence and lack of understanding of the agency
-Taking on Silicon Valley “move fast and break things” attitudes
-Testing the limits to see if there is significant pushback
by John Mullahy
This administration can't even be incompetent competently.
You literally can't trust Trump to faithfully execute any laws, much less than the ones even signs www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...
Trump administration’s claims against automatic furloughed worker backpay lack legal, historical basis
Experts say the White House’s new theory that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not guarantee feds backpay following a shutdown fails a basic tenet of legal analysis.
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by Daniel Kuehn
Is it too much to hope that maybe these rapid-fire fired-rehired reports during the shutdown are actually politicals at agencies pushing back against Vought? I’m not sure, but it seems different from waiting weeks to rehire because you realized it was dumb or because a court told you to.
Funny how this keeps happening.
by Alfie Kohn
Good thing for Trumpians that only liberals get sick
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Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
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#Politics #Trump
From #TheHill: Trump fires dozens of #CDC employees, including the Epidemic Intelligence Service and the staff of the weekly morbidity and mortality report.
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From #TheHill: Trump fires dozens of #CDC employees, including the Epidemic Intelligence Service and the staff of the weekly morbidity and mortality report.
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