Half Of Recently Fired CDC Employees Reinstated - Report
Source: Newsweek
Oct 12, 2025 at 03:48 PM EDT
Approximately 700 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees who received termination notices late Friday have been reinstated, CNN reports, citing the American Federation of Government Employees. The reinstatements followed the issuance of layoff notices to approximately 1,300 CDC workers on Friday night, with about 600 employees remaining separated from the agency as part of the Trump administration's Reduction in Force initiatives.
Andrew Nixon, director of communications for the US Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed that "the employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and have all been notified that they are not subject to the reduction in force." Newsweek reached out to the agency via email on Sunday for comment.
Why It Matters
Earlier this this month, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had met with Vought to discuss “which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought announced on Friday in an X post that “the RIFs have begun,” meaning “reduction-in-force” plans aimed at cutting the size of the federal workforce. An agency spokesperson described the layoffs as “substantial” but did not provide details on how many employees are affected or which departments are involved. The mass layoffs and subsequent partial reinstatement have created significant disruption at the nation's premier public health agency during critical ongoing health responses.
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This, however, is a new record for Trump in terms of the quickest rehiring.