Some employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the U.S.’ nuclear weapons, were reportedly summoned back to work after being laid off last week.

Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying

DOGE accidentally fired federal staff who were working to contain bird flu outbreak, report says - ‘We know that work will make us better here at USDA. It will make us stronger, it will make us faster,

The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes sweeping cuts to government agencies

The United States Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired several agency employees working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak, over the weekend,

The accidental firings come amid the Trump administration’s sweeping push to reduce the size of the government and cut the federal workforce.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rehire workers who had been working on the government's response to the bird flu after they were fired as part of the Trump administration's mass federal firings.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged it accidentally fired "several" employees to combat the bird flu and is working to rehire them.