Switzer Memorial Building in Washington on Tuesday.Credit...Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Health job cuts: The Trump administration laid off thousands of federal health workers, dismissing senior leaders and top scientists in a purge that outside experts and former officials said would cause an immeasurable loss of expertise.

The Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services,

A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work.

Mass firings took place today at federal health agencies amid the Trump administration's slashing of federal jobs.

The agency charged with fighting the kind of medical misdiagnosis that put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the brink of unnecessary brain surgery seems set for elimination.

The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will on April 10 hold a hearing on the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, its chairman Senator Bill Cassidy said in a statement.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is joining 22 other states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration over sweeping cuts in public health funding. Raoul said President Trump was elected to make changes,

Employees of the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began getting dismissal notices in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people​.