Job cuts hit U.S. FDA employees working on food safety, medical devices

Trump administration cuts reach FDA employees in food safety, medical devices and tobacco products The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend. AP News

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 devices and conduct oversight of Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to memos reviewed by Bloomberg.

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