Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired