Food and Drug Administration, Staffers and Reinstates

FDA moves to rehire medical device, food safety and other staffers fired days earlier
The reversal is the latest example of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to cost-cutting, which has resulted in several agencies firing, and then scrambling to rehire, employees responsible for nuclear weapons, national parks and other government services.
Trump reinstates fired staff working on food and device safety, 9/11 program
Patient advocacy groups had decried the firings,  and lobbying groups rushed to save some slots that were in part funded by the private sector.
F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
The agency changed course just days after firing employees who oversee the safety of food and life-sustaining medical devices. Dozens of workers said they and others were back at work Monday.
FDA scrambles to rehire food safety and other staffers who were fired last week
The Trump administration's chaotic cost-cutting has let to similar reversals at other agencies, which sought to rehire ex-employees responsible for nuclear weapons, national parks and other government services.
FDA rehires medical device staffers fired only days earlier
Like other agencies, the FDA terminations went to employees in their probationary period, typically the first two years of federal employment. But that approach resulted in the te
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