The Trump administration requires further CDC cuts
In addition to large reductions in the staff of the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases, the Trump administration has asked the Agency to cut $ 2.9 billion of contracts for contracts, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the matter.The program of reducing the costs of the Administration, called the Department of Efficiency of the Government, asked the public health agency to cut around 35 percent of its expenses for contracts about two weeks ago. The CDC was told to conform by April 18, according to officials.The cuts further promise a knee tendon an agency that already moves away from the loss of 2,400 employees, almost a fifth of his workforce. Tuesday, the administration fired the scientists of the CDC focused on environmental health and asthma, injuries...