As many as 1,300 employees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are slated to be let go as soon as Friday, cutting the public health agency’s workforce by 10%.

The cuts, reported by multiple publications, come a day after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate and sworn into office.

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