{"id":33757,"date":"2025-02-19T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/us-agriculture-department-says-it-accidentally-fired-bird-flu-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:41:51","slug":"us-agriculture-department-says-it-accidentally-fired-bird-flu-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/us-agriculture-department-says-it-accidentally-fired-bird-flu-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"US agriculture department says it accidentally fired bird flu officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency works to rehire employees shortly after touting plan to \u2018optimize workforce\u2019 by cutting staff with help of Musk<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it accidentally fired several employees working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bird-flu\">H5N1 avian influenza<\/a>, or bird flu, outbreak and is now trying to rehire them.<\/p>\n<p>The about-face came after the USDA touted its plans to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/02\/14\/secretary-rollins-takes-bold-action-stop-wasteful-spending-and-optimize-usda-better-serve-american\">optimize its workforce<\/a>\u201d by firing workers and terminating contracts, actions aided by billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s unofficial agency, the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), NBC News reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/19\/agriculture-department-fires-bird-flu-vaccine-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency works to rehire employees shortly after touting plan to \u2018optimize workforce\u2019 by cutting staff with help of Musk The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it accidentally fired several employees working on the H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak and is now trying to rehire them. The about-face came after the USDA &#8230; <a title=\"US agriculture department says it accidentally fired bird flu officials\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/us-agriculture-department-says-it-accidentally-fired-bird-flu-officials\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US agriculture department says it accidentally fired bird flu officials\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}