Layoff notices went out to workers at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). The agency said 170 workers will be let go due to immediate cuts in federal funding.

Minnesota’s health department is laying off 170 employees whose positions were funded by pandemic-era federal grants to the state that were recently terminated by the administration of President

The reduction is expected to have wide-reaching consequences for the state's public health efforts, according to MDH Commissioner Dr. Brooke Cunningham.