The Trump administration’s sweeping jobs cuts have reached Georgia’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is expected to lose about one-tenth of its workforce, the Associated Press has reported.
The administration’s broad plan to cut probationary employees will result in the loss of nearly 1,300 jobs at the CDC, according to the AP. CDC leaders were notified Friday morning.
The cuts are part of the new administration’s aggressive plans to reduce the size of the federal government.
“President Trump’s indefensible, indiscriminate firing of more than 1,000 CDC personnel in a single day leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world’s most talented doctors and scientists, many of them here in Georgia,” Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, posted online Friday.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, also a Democrat, said the cuts were part of “Trump administration’s reckless attacks on public health.”
“Make no mistake—these firings mean Americans are less safe from future pandemics. I will do everything I can to fight this,” Warnock posted online.
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Jill Nolin | Georgia Recorder
Jill Nolin has spent nearly 15 years reporting on state and local government in four states, focusing on policy and political stories and tracking public spending. She has spent the last five years chasing stories in the halls of Georgia’s Gold Dome, earning recognition for her work showing the impact of rising opioid addiction on the state’s rural communities. She is a graduate of Troy University.
