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The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response. 

While the Trump administration has walked back a small number of its layoffs in the public health field, it did so only after requiring an equal number of employees to be cut going forward.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday brought back around 300 employees it had dismissed through a reduction in force. It will now provide a one-to-one "substitution” to even out the rescinded reductions in force with new cuts, according to an internal email obtained by Government Executive.  ...” 

SEE: CDC to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs - Government Executive

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/CDC-cut-one-employee-each-it-recalling-layoffs/405336/