    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Page H860]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                            FIRED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP

      (Ms. LOFGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for
    1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
      Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share the story of a Federal
    scientist, in their own words, who was fired by President Trump and
    Elon Musk.

           I was a Laboratory Leadership Service, LLS, fellow. We are
         a group of 24 Ph.D. scientists in the LLS program at the CDC.
         Almost all of the fellows in our program were terminated. LLS
         fellows have been instrumental in the past by responding to
         combat public health outbreaks like Ebola. Likewise, my
         current fellows and I have helped protect the United States
         from new and emerging infections within the past year. This
         has directly affected our outbreak response work.

      Really? We are firing the people who keep Ebola from the country?
      These senseless firings have to stop. If you were fired from a
    Federal science agency, if your cutting-edge science research was
    destroyed and cut, we want to hear your story. You can share it at the
    website for the House Science Committee Democrats.

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