Before any strategy can be formulated for next year’s appropriations, cancer groups must confront the formidable challenge of figuring out how much of President Joe Biden’s vision for cancer research is realistic.
An estimated 5,200 of HHS employees have been fired during the course of this week. Since the firings are ongoing, no final tally of their extent exists. At this writing, approximately 1,200 of the fired HHS employees were working at NIH, about 700 at FDA, and 750 at CDC.
