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CDC Finalizes Roughly 600 Layoffs After Judge Narrows Injunction

A revised court order cleared the way for HHS to cut unprotected CDC units, touching violence-prevention roles plus core support offices.

FILE - The campus of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seen in Atlanta, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
People demonstrate outside the main campus of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on April 1, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Overview

  • Union officials say about 600 CDC employees received permanent termination notices this week, with HHS confirming notices were sent but declining to provide a number.
  • Roughly 100 positions tied to violence prevention are included, along with posts in equal employment opportunity, FOIA, financial resources, and the CIO and COO offices.
  • U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose scaled back an earlier injunction, shielding units like the HIV/STD/TB center, the Division of Reproductive Health, and NIOSH while leaving other offices subject to cuts.
  • Many affected staff had been on paid administrative leave since April; employees were told the terminations took effect Monday.
  • The timing follows the Aug. 8 shooting at CDC headquarters that killed a police officer, and more than 750 current and former HHS employees urged Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to counter health misinformation as HHS said linking reforms to the attack politicizes a tragedy.