by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
Under the new health agency, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to lay off at least 10,000 people from federal agencies to cut costs. The current administration has made good on that promise and fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response.
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association and a source familiar with the situation, many employees learned of as they attempted to enter office buildings and were denied access, are part of the administration’s effort to shrink the federal government. Accoridng to a report by Reuters, among those fired were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, according to the source.