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Is the FDA ‘finished’? Leadership drain hits agency hard.

HHS and FDA are undergoing workforce reductions in April 2025, including prominent leaders.
The staff reductions are part of a broad restructuring under the Make America Healthy Again agenda.
These changes involve pink slips, administrative leave, and the departure of key personnel across the agencies.
HHS will cut 10,000 positions, and the FDA will cut about 20% of its staff which equals 3,500.
Experts warn of eroded standards and impacts to new therapies as the agency faces leadership gaps.

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Is the FDA ‘finished’? Leadership drain hits agency hard.

Amid widespread staff reductions at health agencies, a number of key officials have bid farewell to pharma’s top regulator.

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary gets off to a bruising start as agency is wracked by layoffs

Sweeping FDA cuts give Makary, RFK Jr. chance to reshape FDA. Yet remaining workers face daunting task of doing the same work with fewer people.

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FDA Law Blog

Governmentally Recognized as Safe

That’s a play on an old acronym, in service of a point. A few weeks ago, HHS released a press release stating that FDA had been directed “to explore potential rulemaking to revise its Substances Ge…

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FDA is ‘finished’ after mass layoffs, ex-commissioner says

Robert Califf, who led the Food & Drug Administration under former President Biden, said most leaders with knowledge of safety are gone.

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STAT+: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Gets Off To A Bruising Start As Agency Is Wracked By Layoffs

WASHINGTON — Marty Makary’s first official day as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration began with employees in tears, learning from security guards that they were losing their jobs. The news release announcing the start of his tenure points readers to a press office that, after large-scale layoffs, basically no longer exists. His first email to staff summarized his resume. “A national leader in medicine with impeccable credentials, D…

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Endpoints News

‘It’ll be a challenge’: BIO chief Crowley addresses seismic FDA overhaul

WASHINGTON — The size and scope of the FDA that began Tuesday won’t be the same as the day nears a brutal conclusion for agency staffers that were laid off or forced to resign. Sitting in ...

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