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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

The Trump administration is cutting 10% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's workforce.

That's about 1,300 people.

NPR's Woolstone reports on the hit to the public health agency.

The layoffs are targeting probationary employees.

It's a broad category

that includes recent hires and longtime staffers who recently moved to new positions in the CDC.

One current CDC employee who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak,

called the decision tragic for the future of the agency. The cuts also hit the epidemic intelligence service where all those in the first year of their

service were laid off.

These are CDC's so-called disease detectives, often dispatched to investigate outbreaks and

public health threats.

A spokesperson at the Department of Health and Human Services told NPR it's taking the action

to support President Trump's broader effort to restructure and streamline the federal government. Will Stone, NPR it's taking the action to support President Trump's broader effort to

restructure and streamline the federal government. Will Stone, NPR News. President Trump has been

using emergency authorities in unusual ways, much like in his first administration when he declared

an emergency to fund his border wall and prompted a showdown over the separation of powers.

And PR's Camilla Dominovsky reports that debate has been revived and expanded.

In his first term, President Trump used emergency powers to claim billions of dollars for his border wall

when allocating money as Congress's job. And the Supreme Court never made a final ruling on

whether he could do that. Now Trump has

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