In shock announcement, Trump Administration fires over 1,000 CDC workers in single day
More than 10% of CDC workforce laid off
Sen. Ossoff: “Indefensible, indiscriminate firing of more than 1,000 CDC personnel in a single day leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world’s most talented doctors and scientists”
Atlanta, Ga. — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today blasted President Trump’s mass firing at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issuing the following statement.
“President Trump’s indefensible, indiscriminate firing of more than 1,000 CDC personnel in a single day leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world’s most talented doctors and scientists, many of them here in Georgia.”
Earlier this week Sen. Ossoff argued forcefully against Senate confirmation of radical Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who had publicly compared the work of the CDC to “Nazi death camps.”
In his speech, Sen. Ossoff urged his Senate colleagues, “If this Administration guts and gags the CDC, who is going to defend the nation from Ebola? Who is going to protect kids from measles? Who is going to save us from TB?”
