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US health agency layoffs gut mine safety, infertility and smoking programs

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The Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to downsize nearly a quarter of the 82,000 -person workforce on Tuesday .

Among the losses at the Food and Drug Administration was the division devoted to crafting tobacco policy.

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , cuts hit an entire branch devoted to infertility a cause that Donald Trump had championed only days earlier , calling himself the 'fertilization president'.

The $ 1.7tn health department is expected to lose up to 20,000 people, or one quarter of its 82,000 -person workforce.

Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine issued an open letter to warn Americans of the administration's assault on science.

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