Most federal health employees fired in the spring worked for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a new report from Democrats on a Senate panel.
Some 2,519 FDA employees and 2,473 CDC employees were fired as part of the reduction in force announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Senate Health Committee minority report released on May 13 said.
Another 1,312 employees from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were terminated, according to the report, which cited the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The remaining 2,117 terminations affected other divisions within the agency, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services….