It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.

In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit with DOGE pink slips.

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Federal regulators were responsible for recalling pet food contaminated with bird flu, which killed household cats.

Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to the Trump administration calling for a stop to the “assault” on science.

E mployees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) knew that mass layoffs would be coming on April 1. But many did not expect the cuts to be so deep—or the implications of the layoffs to be so potentially detrimental to the health and wellbeing of American families.

The cuts are part of a plan by President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels in federal agencies.

The Trump Administration began terminating thousands of staff and purging some of the top leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services. It included several key agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration,

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health.