Gottlieb Takes To Twitter To Raise FDA Morale Amid Shutdown

Over the past few days US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has been tweeting about the ongoing government shutdown, including offering his appreciation of agency staffers working under the government shutdown and his support to staffers who have been furloughed. While the agency is operating with carryover user-fee money, the shutdown has limited the agency’s ability to review new products and develop policies.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb

US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has taken to Twitter in recent days to thank agency staff who are still working under the ongoing government shutdown and offered words of support to those who’ve been furloughed. Almost half of CDRH’s staff have been furloughed since Dec. 22 when President Trump and Congress couldn’t agree on a budget to keep the government running.

“I’m grateful for the thousands of #FDA employees who continue work on vital public health activities during the lapse in funding, such as drug shortages mitigation for life-sustaining drugs, food outbreaks, and surveillance of adverse events reports that could cause human harm,” said the commissioner in the first

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