05-04-2025
Federal Health and Human Services cuts include 90 in Frederick County
As President Donald Trump's administration cuts thousands of jobs from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, a notice filed with the Maryland Department of Labor indicates 90 DHSS jobs are being cut in Frederick County.
Maryland's Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) lists 90 DHHS jobs in Frederick County to be eliminated as part of a mass layoff, effective May 30.
The list did not include details on what types of jobs were being eliminated, or where in Frederick County they are located.
Sasha Galbreath, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney, said Friday that the office was working to learn details about the positions.
Officials with the Frederick County Office of Economic Development, city of Frederick Department of Economic Development, the office of Gov. Wes Moore, and other sources either could not be reached for comment or did not know exact details about the Frederick County cuts.
The WARN list included 2,755 HHS jobs being cut across Maryland in 11 notices dated March 31.
In an email Thursday, HHS Deputy Press Secretary Emily Hilliard did not answer specific questions about the Frederick County cuts, but said the cuts were meant to align HHS with its core missions.
She wrote that the phase of the project unveiled Tuesday notified about 10,000 HHS employees across the country.
The cuts were centered around redundant or unnecessary administrative positions, her email said.
In another posting on Wednesday, the WARN website also listed 16 positions cut at Leidos, a federal contractor that has managed the National Cancer Institute's Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research for about 30 years, until losing the contract in January.
Those cuts are scheduled to take effect June 1.
