A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.

The Trump administration continues its deluge of executive orders that directly affect science and research, just days after being sworn in. Following the executive orders (EOs) taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement and World Health Organization and the scientific nonsense in the EO on trans and non-binary people,

The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on public communications from federal health agencies like the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it expects the pause to be temporary.

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Trump ordered a pause on communications from several federal health organizations, including the FDA, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health.

The Trump administration's "short pause" on communications, expected to end on Feb. 1, has affected FDA updates on food contamination investigations.

At least in one respect, the Trump administration's pause on health communications breaks a pattern that's held for at least three decades.

The trip comes days after the president said he would “rather see the states take care of their own problems” while complaining about federal disaster response in an interview

Donald Trump is greeted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on stage during a campaign event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024.