Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency's roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of nearly all probationary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to lose nearly 1,300 probationary employees—about 10% of its workforce—as part of a broader federal decision to remove all probationary employees from the agency.

By Andrea Shalal, Leah Douglas and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

The Trump administration will reportedly fire thousands of federal employees working in public health and science agencies on Friday as part of its effort to shrink the size of government. The latest cuts will affect about 5,

More than 1,000 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been put on notice less than 24 hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office.

The CDC did not immediately respond to Atlanta Business Chronicle's requests for comment. Tasked with protecting Americans from public health threats, the agency had a headcount o

By Andrea Shalal, Leah Douglas, Ahmed Aboulenein and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

The verbal notice came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a meeting with CDC leaders, according to a federal official who was at the meeting. The official was not authorized to discuss it and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.