The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is eliminating 1,300 probationary workers as part of an unprecedented cutting of jobs across the federal government. | The federal government is laying off thousands of health agency workers and others this week.

Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired