Layoffs to hit beleaguered CDC if there's a shutdown

Source: Roll Call

Posted September 30, 2025 at 5:33am


Unlike other agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be subject to significant “reductions in force” if the government shuts down because of a funding lapse midnight Tuesday.

Of the 8,742 CDC workers slated to be furloughed, 1,563 are subject to the layoffs, according to the department’s plans. An HHS official said Monday that staff will receive further guidance on specific contingencies for the agency.

The potential layoffs come at a tumultuous time for the CDC, after director Susan Monarez was removed less than a month into the job and other top officials left, sparking a clash with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine guidance and the agency’s direction.

Kennedy said earlier this month that “over the decades, bureaucratic inertia, politicized science and mission creep have corroded that purpose and squandered public trust” at the agency. He blamed the agency’s COVID-19 guidance for sowing distrust. In August, a gunman angry about COVID-19 vaccines fired hundreds of rounds into the CDC headquarters in Atlanta.

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They were planning to destroy much of the federal government whether there was a C.R. or not so that "threat" is bogus.

And regarding this -



Notice how the media has "disappeared" that story out of the news (I know the shooter is deceased but still)?