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US agriculture department says it accidentally fired bird flu officials

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Excerpted from a current report in The Guardian:
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it accidentally fired several employees working on the H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak and is now trying to rehire them.

The about-face came after the USDA touted its plans to “optimize its workforce” by firing workers and terminating contracts, actions aided by billionaire Elon Musk’s unofficial agency, the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), NBC News reported on Tuesday.

“Although several positions supporting [avian flu] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters,” a USDA spokesperson told NBC. The USDA did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The USDA’s mistaken firings come as other federal agencies experience heavy job losses related to a voluntary buyout scheme and the firing of probationary employees, both carried out by the Trump administration.

It terminated 1,165 workers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Sunday, Reuters reported. Terminations were so severe at the food division of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a senior leader tendered his resignation in protest.

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