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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)

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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The shutdown doesn't give them any extra power to fire people, in fact one could argue there's less.

So they basically doing "let is is cut Medicaid for millions or we will fire these unrelated people"

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let us kill the sick or we kill the sick

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Well, you can't be asking for an option that doesn't kill the sick! Fuvking commie!