BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

[sheshe2]

Swell.

— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T04:14:58.774Z

The Trump administration is using the federal government shutdown as an excuse to terminate CDC employees. The above screenshot is an email obtained by Inside Medicine, received by a CDC official within the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases [NCIRD] Office of the Director.

This is, to my knowledge, the first visual confirmation of this fresh round of HHS terminations, promised earlier in the day by Russel Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget—who previously warned that a government shutdown would be leveraged as yet another pretense to dismantle large swaths of the CDC. Ironically, some CDC employees who have been furloughed due to the shutdown were apparently called back in to do this particular work. Of note, that alone may make these RIFs illegal, simply on procedural grounds, according to a legal expert I spoke to.

In addition to rank-and-file scientists and staffers, institutional leaders were affected this time around, leaving it unclear just how the agency’s major centers and divisions might continue to function.

“Whole NCIRD Office of the Director RIF’d,” one former CDC official familiar with the situation told me. “Acting Director and Deputy of NCIRD definitely RIFd.”

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-employees-terminated

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. They want to kill us.

[Cha]

4. Of Course the Fascist Neo Nazi Fucks

Want us Dead.

Read the Traitor Neo Nazi had his "Covid Booster and Flu shot today".

[sheshe2]

6. Great minds think alike...

I posted that right after you, Cha. Fugging hippocrite...him, not you.

[Cha]

10. When I saw that OP today telling us

that.. I said it Should Go Viral.. Get the news out about the Fucking Gaslighting Brainwashing Lying Crock of Shit.

This Needs to be Known.. can't ask the US Fascist m$m to talk about it.

TY, she..

[sheshe2]

13. You will only see facts and good discussions...

on MSNBC after 4pm starting with Nicole.

[sheshe2]

5. They sure aren't hiding it anymore.

This after the hypocrite got his flu and covid shots today, disease control for me and not for thee.

[fujiyamasan]

2. The next time a pandemic rolls around

We’ll be really fucked.

It’s like this administration is on the side of cancer and other diseases.

[Irish_Dem]

21. This is the point. Cull the herd of worthless eaters.

[Ms. Toad]

3. So they will all be getting unemployment compensation

which we'll be paying for. They will probably sue, so we'll have a nice big legal bill. And ultimately they will be rehired when they discover the government needs them to function.

Nice way to save money.

[sheshe2]

11. Exactly right.

However this is all in the Project2025 playbook.

White House OMB director (Project 2025 architect) Russel Vought said the quiet part out loud: He wanted federal workers to be traumatized, as part of a larger strategy to dismantle the federal government.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Yes the goal is to inflict as much pain as possible to get what they want.

Destroy the federal govt and US.

Steal all US assets.

[Irish_Dem]

22. We pay to fire them. Then pay for the lawsuits. And then pay to reinstate them

with back salary, etc.

Yes all this saving money is costing the taxpayers a fortune.

[Glorious bastard]

7. "Terminated" is a scary way of putting it.

[Cha]

8. So Unbearably tragic that Neo Nazis

Got a Grip on our Government.

TY, she

[littlemissmartypants]

17. It truly is, Cha. 💔💧

[Cha]

19. May We BE Able to Look Back

on This, pants, as the time we were So Strong and that we came through it Stronger.💔 💙

[B.See]

9. If some foreign entity did only HALF

of what Trump has done to America they'd have been calling for his scalp by now. Especially the lamestream media.

Instead, the continuous horrors he inflicts are reported with all the urgency of an afternoon showers forecast.

It's fkn pathetic.

[sheshe2]

12. Project 2025 IS from a foreign playbook.

How to destroy America in a few easy steps. THEY are the enemy from within working hand in hand with our foreign enemies.

[B.See]

14. Exactly.

[sheshe2]

15. Heartbreaking, isn't it.

[B.See]

16. and infuriating. Wondering when

America will finally have enough.

[Irish_Dem]

24. The damage Trump is doing is way worse than the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Yet we declared war on Japan but let Trump continue to do whatever he wants with no
consequences.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. They want us to

Be scared. I'm not.

[trusty elf]

20. ....

[Champp]

25. Republicans AXE more honest people

If you ain't willing to lie and cheat, the Republicans have not use for you.

[Lovie777]

26. Bankrupt the USA both mentally and physically...............

if and when reality checks in, well in this case with shithole's comrades, it ain't, I look forward to the demise of the cult party.

Meanwhile, it may take a long time to rectify the damage the GQP did and still doing to the country.

The insane logic of these psychopaths have no use here, first and foremost they are completely evil coupled with the thirst of greed and the power to do harm.

We will survive.

[retiredwelder]

27. vote

It`s sad to see anyone to loose their job, I`ve been voting for almost 60 years, not sure of the exact numbers , but most public employees vote republican. I`m starting to not care.

[SamuelTheThird]

28. Yeah, they're trying to kill us

[W_HAMILTON]

29. Had Trump not fired the U.S. staff in China responsible for detecting outbreaks, COVID might have never been a thing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910R/

[Wednesdays]

30. What could possibly go wrong?

FAFO.