It has been increasingly clear … the Trump administration’s disdain for the very people necessary to implement your agenda,’ wrote the deputy commissioner and head of the

Eighty-nine staffers in the agency’s food division were laid off over the weekend, according to Jones, who served as FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods.

Thousands of workers employed across the Department of Health and Human Services received notices that they would be terminated following four weeks of leave, including at least 89 members of FDA’s Human Foods Program staff,