by Michelle Diament | April 3, 2025
“Mass firings at a federal agency supporting community living efforts for people with disabilities are fueling concerns that funding will be disrupted and programs could be forced to close.
Nearly 50% of the staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living was terminated this week, including the organization’s budget, policy, evaluation and communications offices, according to Alison Barkoff, a professor at George Washington University who led the Administration for Community Living under the Biden administration.
The firings were part of a broad reorganization of HHS, which announced last week that it would let 10,000 workers go. Overall, the agency indicated that it would shrink from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees when factoring the layoffs, buyouts and early retirements since the Trump administration took over.”