The Department of Government Efficiency held marathon meetings with employees of the National Institutes of Health Sunday in order to gather information about further potential cuts to the institutes, according to a source familiar.
The meetings continued Monday.
In addition, probationary employees across several health agencies — employees that have not yet occupied their roles for a one to three year probationary period — have been terminated in recent days, exempting people in critical roles. Even after the firing of probationary employees and the voluntary buyouts, HHS agencies have more full time employees than in the fiscal year before the outbreak of COVID-19, Health and Human Services Department Communications Director Andrew Nixon said: FDA has 1,979 more full time employees; NIH still has 1,312 more full time employees; and CDC still has 1,224 more full time employees…
