{"id":26386,"date":"2025-02-14T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26386"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:59:42","slug":"sen-ossoff-blasts-trumps-mass-firings-at-cdc-warns-of-risks-to-health","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-blasts-trumps-mass-firings-at-cdc-warns-of-risks-to-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Blasts Trump\u2019s Mass Firings at CDC, Warns of Risks to Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

In shock announcement, Trump Administration <\/em>fires<\/em><\/a> over 1,000 CDC workers in single day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 10% of CDC workforce laid off<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff: \u201cIndefensible, 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\u2019s most talented doctors and scientists\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today blasted President Trump\u2019s mass firing at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issuing the following statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s 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\u2019s most talented doctors and scientists, many of them here in Georgia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week Sen. Ossoff argued<\/a> 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 \u201cNazi death camps.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his speech, Sen. Ossoff urged his Senate colleagues<\/a>, \u201cIf 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?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In shock announcement, Trump Administration fires over 1,000 CDC workers in single day More than 10% of CDC workforce laid off Sen. Ossoff: \u201cIndefensible, 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\u2019s most talented doctors and scientists\u201d Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 U.S. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26386","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26390,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26386\/revisions\/26390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}