🚨BREAKING NEWS: On October 28, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston (Northern District of California) granted a Preliminary Injunction (PI) in AFGE v. OMB, which continues halting all Federal Reduction-in-Force (RIF) actions initiated or approved by OMB during the current government shutdown. The ruling applies nationwide to any agencies--including CDC/HHS--with at least 1 AFGE Member or BUE that applied the new OMB RIF framework.🚨
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‘October 14, 2025 - The Hill -CDC union blasts lack of transparency from HHS in layoffs
October 14, 2025 - NOTUS - ‘A Kick in the Mouth’: Trump Administration Makes Staffing Cuts to CDC’s Safety Office Months After Shooting
October 14, 2025 - Atlanta Journal Constitution - Union: CDC officials who inform Congress among those fired in shutdown
October 14, 2025 - WIRED - A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
October 14, 2025 - Atlanta Journal Constitution - Union: CDC officials who inform Congress among those fired in shutdown
October 14, 2025 - CBS Atlanta - Hundreds of CDC workers see their layoffs reversed, but concerns over their jobs during the shutdown remain
October 14, 2025 - Scientific American - CDC Cuts Threaten Public Health Nationwide, Fired Employees Say
October 14, 2025 - Medpage Today - Want to Call CDC to Report a Possible Disease Outbreak? Fuhgeddaboutit
October 14, 2025 - NPR - With new cuts at CDC, some fear there's 'nobody to answer the phone'
October 14, 2025 - CQ Roll Call -CDC workers ask Congress, where is ‘radical transparency’ now?
October 15, 2025 - Nature News - Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll
October 15, 2025 - Devex - Haphazard US CDC staff cuts leave questions around impact
October 15, 2025 - Georgia Recorder - About 600 CDC workers are expected to be permanently fired after latest round of cuts
October 15, 2025 -Axios - CDC cuts put injury tracking and prevention in limbo