The Trump administration appears to have fired all but one person from the office that oversees the federal government’s family-planning initiatives, including teen pregnancy prevention programs and embryo donation efforts.
The Office of Population Affairs, frequently the target of attacks from Republicans in Congress because it distributes funding to some Planned Parenthood clinics, locked out its staff from their emails and laptops on Friday night, according to three federal workers who spoke with NOTUS.
“Almost all of the staff’s accounts have been disabled,” Jessica Marcella, who served as the deputy assistant secretary for population affairs during the Biden administration, told NOTUS.