US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA (2)

The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to emails reviewed by Bloomberg News.

The notices Saturday indicated that layoffs would expand beyond prior reports of job cuts at the CDC and National Institutes of Health at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to shrink the size of the federal government.

Those laid off Saturday included employees that evaluate the safety of medical ...