On October 10, the Trump administration terminated the employment of over 1,300 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) employees, only to rescind about 700 terminations less than a day later.
Among those that were fired, then immediately reinstated, were employees in vital positions, “including all six of the CDC’s regional offices around the world; the team that produces the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; and some of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), known as ‘disease detectives.’”
Workers from the office of the director of the center for injury prevention and division of violence prevention policy were not reinstated, however.
Health and Human Services (HHS) attempted to excuse the blunder by labeling it as a “coding error.” This is despite Trump’s claim that he only hires “the best people.” Former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama never accidentally fired hundreds of federal workers.
