Their sheer number suggests that the United States government has spent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars since the start of April on idled health workers. "I'm being paid to not work," Aryn Backus, a health-communications specialist with the CDC's now-dismantled Office on Smoking and Health who has been on leave for months as part of the contested reduction in workforce, told me. In some cases, federal officials are being paid a lot to not work. I spoke with nearly a dozen officials indefinitely stuck in the rubber room whose annual salaries range from about $150,000 to $400,000…
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/09/nih-administrative-leave/684191/
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