The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association and a source familiar with the situation.

A Reuters report says the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the FDA included staff working on the agency’s bird flu response, alarming health experts.

The Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services,

The president claimed in a 2024 speech that the general he has now nominated to serve as his chief military advisor once told him, ‘I love you, sir.

General Dan Caine, a nominee for chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has supported further military assistance to Ukraine but stressed the need for Europe to increase its share of support. Source: Caine in his answers before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing on 1 April,