The Department of Health and Human Services underwent an unprecedented purge this week, as thousands of employees from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other agencies across the department were fired, placed on administrative leave, or offered transfers to far-flung Indian Health Service facilities in such places as New Mexico, Montan…

Multiple public records teams were entirely cut by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the HHS as part of the Trump administration’s layoffs of 10,000 health workers.