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Trump’s CDC Layoffs Ends PRAMS

April 2, 2025

Trump’s CDC Layoffs Ends PRAMS

What: Just one sliver of the CDC layoffs yesterday? The entire team that ran the PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) database was let go. It was a decades-deep research set tracking infant and maternal health from pregnancy through the postpartum period.

Key Line: “Today all CDC employees who worked at PRAMS were terminated (RIF’d). So while there hasn’t been any official announcement that the program is permanently shuttered, all the people who ran it are out as of today.”

Source: Talking Points Memo

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