USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
On Trump’s cut cue, USDA fires officials working to contain bird flu; now working to ‘rectify’ mistake
The ‘accidental’ layoffs have sparked concern among US President Donald Trump’s own party lines as many Republican leaders reportedly warned POTUS that dismissing employees from the USDA might hamper
'High-level' official working on bird flu response among those fired at NBAF
Among those fired this week at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility is a high-level official working on the bird flu response, sources said Monday.
USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers
The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes sweeping cuts to government agencies
USDA Works to Rehire Bird Flu Officials It Fired, NBC News Reports
The United States Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired several agency employees working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak, over the weekend,
USDA trying to rehire employees working on bird flu
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rehire workers who had been working on the government's response to the bird flu after they were fired as part of the Trump administration's mass federal firings.
USDA to rehire recently fired staff working on bird flu outbreak
USDA employees were fired while the bird flu devastated millions of chickens. Egg production suffered, increasing the price by 15.2%.
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