A Burning FDA Hiring Freeze Question: What About User-Fee-Supported Staff?

Industry worries about user fee programs as US FDA could wait weeks before finding out how President Trump's hiring freeze affects it.

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President Donald Trump's mandated hiring freeze, while simple on its face, could prove much more complicated in its application to FDA, meaning more confusion and uncertainty for agency officials.

Trump issued a memorandum telling all federal executive agency heads to stop hiring new workers or filing existing...

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