Oops! Trump Accidentally Fired FDA Medical Device Reviewers
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The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to bring back hundreds of critical workers laid off en masse by DOGE.
Turns out people want to know their pacemaker won’t accidentally kill them.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to rehire some of the roughly 700 employees who were laid off en masse by the Trump administration earlier this month, with a particular emphasis on the more than 220 people in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Staffers at the unit are responsible for reviewing and approving medical devices like X-ray machines, surgical implants, pacemakers, heart pumps, ventilators and numerous other types of critical medical equipment.
They also maintain a database of devices that could inadvertently harm patients and need to be recalled.
The agency didn’t immediately respond to a request from HuffPost regarding how many employees were laid off and how many they’re hoping to rehire.
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