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Federal science workforce decimation and loss of agency capacity

March 28, 2026Dr. Catharine Young, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)

Dr. Catharine Young and Peter Hotez warn that mass departures from federal science agencies are gutting US scientific capacity, framing it as an institutional crisis with downstream impacts on public health and research.

Almost 100,000 workers have left science federal agencies.
The clearest indicator of the absolute decimation of scientific capacity across the U.S. government.
Amongst the few remaining things that still works in the U.S. Government and they want to eviscerate that too.
Dr. Catharine Young
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
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