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

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

The Trump administration on Feb. 13 ordered HHS to lay off "nearly all" of its 5,200 probationary employees, The Associated Press reported Feb. 14. In a National Institutes of Health department ...

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

“This is to ensure that HHS better serves the American people at the highest and most efficient standard.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eliminated 1,300 probationary worker ...

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

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.

Workers hired within the past two years are among the likeliest to lose their jobs as the Department of Health and Human ...

HHS officials did not answer questions about ... It’s not only new employees who are subject to probation. Probationary periods also are applied to veteran staffers who, for example, were ...

Most dismissals have been tied to the president's anti-DEI agenda. However, recent reports indicate that workers in non-DEI roles, who DOGE deems affiliated with DEI initiatives, have lost their jobs ...

The Trump administration has begun purging thousands of employees at Department of Health and Human Service agencies, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said any staffers in the department who are "working for the pharmaceutical industry" ...