The Department of Government Efficiency has terminated employment for 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services employees, ...

The layoffs are part of a broad effort by President Donald Trump and billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk to reduce the number ...

The AP and other outlets reported last week that as many as 5,200 probationary employees across HHS could be dismissed, based ...

The administration’s Friday night message comes as a sharp departure from the approach that Trump and DOGE have taken to cuts in other federal departments and agencies.

Eight recent former leaders of federal health agencies under the Biden administration -- including former NIH Director Monica ...

2. On Feb. 13, the Trump administration ordered almost all of the 5,200 HHS probationary employees to be cut. An NIH office director said during a department meeting recording, obtained by the The ...

“I'm still processing this to some degree,” said a terminated probationary worker who wants to remain anonymous. She worked ...

Critics say the program that provides medical benefits to 9/11 first responders has seen a 20% reduction in staff.

Morale is low at the FDA, which was hit with layoffs this week following RFK Jr.’s confirmation. Biopharma leaders and agency ...

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...

More than half of the agency’s probationary employees were retained ... critical employees by first considering key functions of HHS — frontline healthcare providers, scientists conducting ...