The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is eliminating 1,300 probationary workers as part of an unprecedented cutting of jobs across the federal government. | The federal government is laying off thousands of health agency workers and others this week.

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years. Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,