During the late hours of Friday, Oct. 10, 2024, dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a devastating email announcing that they are no longer needed in the workforce. And here we thought Americans were about to get more jobs after mass deportations of immigrants.
Even though mass resignations have already severely affected the workforce at CDC after a shooting at its Atlanta headquarters in August, several of the remaining employees have been put on forced administrative leave. The CDC has become a huge target of Donald Trump‘s administration, and the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also fired its director, Susan Monarez, less than a month into her tenure in August.
