CDC staff is on the edge this week as rumors of layoffs flow. Employees are greatly reducing their workforce, which seems to target people with fewer measures to protect workers.

Agency staff notified in email that all centers, agencies, and offices had a list of staff with trial or temporary identities, and they requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the subject. mechanism.

Sources with direct knowledge of the operation told NPR that senior leaders were asked to designate who on the list was crucial rather than the mission.

Those employees considered temporary or probation will include new supervisors, researchers and others who have hired 42 title appointments for their high-skilled skills. This represents a wide range of employees – from businesses that recently represent new talent to employees of senior scientists with years of experience.

Sources say that even half of these workers will respond to the agency's current disease outbreak, including H5N1 bird flu, measles and MPOX.

The lawsuit has upset people across the agency, watching the Trump administration’s efforts to demolish the U.S. Agency for International Development and broader efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce.

This is the latest in a series of actions taken by the Trump administration in the name of efficiency and ideology, including freezing external communications and clearing the CDC website and data sets to align with Trump on gender and diversity Sex, fairness and fairness and diversity of execution orders inclusive.

CDC sources confirmed that data launched in the second half of last week allowed some scientists at the agency to rely on archives of CDC data retained by external groups.

All of this makes the agency less effective in monitoring disease risks and communicating potential hazards, and that “imminent, potential losses of valuable employees” will intensify, the person said, “Americans are already at increased risk, but only It was a risk for a person a few weeks ago.”

A former CDC employee with experience said staff who have experienced other administrative changes at the CDC said the transition was different from anything they had experienced before, “fewer meetings, fewer information requirements” and fewer attempts. Understand how things work. Through several governments resigned over the past few weeks.

Another senior CDC official who recently resigned was frustrated by the prospect of mass layoffs, given the legal protections for agency employees, and even those on probation.

"It was very difficult and traumatic to see reports about the matter," the former employee, who asked to be anonymous, told NPR.

“I know and work with CDC employees for over 25 years are dedicated civil servants and should not be abused in this way.”

Edited by Jane Greenhalgh