Layoffs began widely Tuesday morning at the Department of Health and Human Services as the agency sets out to cut some 10,000 full-time jobs as the Trump administration works to drastically shrink the size of the federal government.

The “reduction in force” plan, announced last Thursday and led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, aims to shrink the health department’s workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 across several of its agencies, including the Centers for Disease…