The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued layoff notices to hundreds of employees on Wednesday after a federal judge last week shielded some but not all offices within the agency.

"I can confirm that roughly 600 CDC employees were let go," an American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "The cuts are across the agency including the Division of Violence Prevention, EEO, FOIA, the Office of Financial Resources, the offices of the chief information and chief operating officers, and more."

The AFGE blasted the timing of the firings, being finalized so soon after the fatal shooting that occurred at the CDC's offices in Atlanta.

"When we face that next public health crisis, we do so with a decimated and demoralized workforc

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