Trump's CDC reinstates hundreds of workers - roughly 20% of the 2,400 previously fired

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinstating hundreds of employees who were fired in earlier this year, according to media reports. Fox News, which first reported the news, said the reinstated employees come from the CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, the National Center for Environmental Health, the Immediate Office of the Director, and the Global Health Center. Among the rehired employees are staffers at a lab that does testing for sexually transmitted infections, and scientists who work on lead poisoning, according to the Associated Press.

 

The reinstated workers, who were notified of the move by email yesterday morning, represent roughly 20% of the 2,400 CDC employees dismissed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under a Reduction in Force (RIF) in early April, CNN reports. The RIF and other layoffs at HHS divisions have been spurred by the Department of Government Efficiency.

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A group representing fired CDC employees told the AP that the reinstatements don't undo the damage that Kennedy and the Trump administration are doing to public health. "Bringing a few hundred people back to work out of thousands fired is a start, but there are still countless programs at CDC that have been cut, which will lead to increased disease and death," said Abby Tighe, one of the founding members of Fired But Fighting.

 

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Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of Minnesota

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/cdc-reinstates-hundreds-workers

 

 

[ronnie50]

I wonder how Elon is taking this news.

His sucking up to Trump, after their spectacular falling out, seems to have been met with silence. I wonder if he went to the parade.

[Dave0206]

Fantastic value for money from doge these reinstated workers were given 1 months salary or up to 8 months for no work .🤔 genius at work what with the birthday parade the country's deficit will soon be wiped out

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"The new reinstatements apparently caught at least some employees by surprise.

 

“These decisions are often being kept away from people in the CDC,” Joseph Cherabie, MD, MSc, medical director of the Washington University in St. Louis PrEP clinic, told Healio. “Some colleagues were surprised at this news, having just had conversations in the last few days with no mention of this occurring. Things being turned on and off so sporadically really makes it hard for anyone to think, ‘Hmm, I want to work for the CDC because I know I can do my work and do it well.’” [emphasis added]

 

CDC staffers had protested outside the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta on Tuesday after an all-hands meeting meant to give them a chance to ask questions and air concerns was canceled, NBC News reported.  According to the report, CDC chief of staff Matthew Buzzelli said the meeting was being rescheduled to review in-process leadership updates, but current and former employees questioned whether the delay was an avoidance tactic."

 

Healio

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20250612/hhs-rehires-hundreds-of-cdc-staff-may-reopen-crucial-sti-lab

 

 

 

All of this chaos and mayhem in CDC workers lives is going on in the Trump Administration while the agency still doesn't have an actual director. Trump's original nominee was withdrawn because of his extremist views.. And Trump's second nominee has yet to have confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate that are now required for the position. And she, the nominee, can't even serve in an acting director capacity in the meantime, because she's the formal nominee....  YEESH!!!

 

March 25, 2025

 

Trump picks new nominee for CDC director

 

"President Donald J. Trump has nominated Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next director of the CDC.  Monarez takes the place of David Weldon, MD, whose nomination was withdrawn by the White House earlier this month, just hours before he was set to appear before a Senate committee.

 

Monarez, currently the CDC’s acting director since Jan. 23, previously served as the agency’s principal deputy director and first assistant to the director.

 

“I think that Susan Monarez is well qualified, has infectious disease expertise and has held important positions in the federal government that pertain to infectious disease management and response,” Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FACP, FACEP, FIDSA, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Healio. “I think that, given some of the other nominees in the administration, this is the best possible result.”

 

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20250325/trump-picks-new-nominee-for-cdc-director

 

So first Elon Musk's DOGE flunkies, and now RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxer brigade in HHS have been gutting the CDC, with no agency director there to at least fight for the agency and its mission, staff and programs.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The broader view of Trump Admin. job cuts: needless chaos and nonsense, and public services suffer as a result, while a portion of those fired, but hardly all, are asked back to work:

 

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people

 

Across the government, officials are rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

 

June 6, 2025

 

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"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

 

Since Musk left the White House last week, he and Trump have fallen out bitterly, sniping at each other in public over the cost of Trump’s sweeping tax legislation and government subsidies for Musk’s businesses. But even before that, the administration was working to undo some of DOGE’s highest-profile actions.

 

Trump officials are trying to recover not only people who were fired, but also thousands of experienced senior staffers who are opting for a voluntary exit as the administration rolls out a second resignation offer. Thousands more staff are returning in fits and starts as a conflicting patchwork of court decisions overturn some of Trump’s large-scale firings, especially his Valentine’s Day dismissal of all probationary workers, those with one or two years of government service and fewer job protections. A federal judge in April ordered the president to reinstate probationary workers dismissed from 20 federal agencies, although a few days later the Supreme Court — in a different case — halted another judge’s order to reinstate a smaller group.

 

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Washington Post

https://archive.ph/wZsda

 

 

 

[NoDisplayName]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The broader view of Trump Admin. job cuts: needless chaos and nonsense, and public services suffer as a result, while a portion of those fired, but hardly all, are asked back to work:

 

Method in the madness?

 

Individual firings take longer, require reams of documentation for each employee, result in hundreds or thousands of individual lawsuits.

 

But mass-firing in a non-discriminatory manner, all employees with less than 6 months in position for 'zample, is faster and more likely to clear judicial challenges.

 

Then you can rehire the ones needed at leisure afterwards.

 

Not sayin' that WAS the plan.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

33 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

But mass-firing in a non-discriminatory manner, all employees with less than 6 months in position for 'zample, is faster and more likely to clear judicial challenges.

 

Then you can rehire the ones needed at leisure afterwards.

 

 

Not quite entirely working out that way, thus far:

 

"Thousands more staff are returning in fits and starts as a conflicting patchwork of court decisions overturn some of Trump’s large-scale firings, especially his Valentine’s Day dismissal of all probationary workers, those with one or two years of government service and fewer job protections. A federal judge in April ordered the president to reinstate probationary workers dismissed from 20 federal agencies, although a few days later the Supreme Court — in a different case — halted another judge’s order to reinstate a smaller group.

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The ever-shifting personnel changes are yet another strain on a workforce already weary of Trump-induced uncertainty, said current and former employees, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

 

“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”  [emphasis added]

 

Washington Post

https://archive.ph/wZsda

 

[freedomnow]

I think OP gets HIGH on anything medically related.

[Patong2021]

3 minutes ago, freedomnow said:

I think OP gets HIGH on anything medically related.

 

OK. However, the information was valid. Are you annoyed that Elon's  DOGE has been exposed as  damaging and misguided?