The statement explained that many of the positions were in the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, exactly the kind of jobs you’d want to have good people for, given the possibility of meat and poultry infected with bird flu entering the U.S. food supply.

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety Inspection Service has rehired employees who were fired but work on bird flu issues, NBC News reported. Meanwhile, ag groups are reacting cautiously to a statement by Kevin Hassett,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired multiple agency employees that were working on a response to the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, according to NBC News. Now the agency says that it is trying to rehire those workers as quickly as possible.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird f

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 Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that it’s trying to hire back fired employees who’d been working on the government’s response to bird flu ― a growing outbreak that’s caused egg prices to soar,

The H5N1 avian flu has impacted more than 160 million birds, resulting in the deaths of 20 million egg-laying chickens since 2022.

Several US Department of Agriculture employees tackling the bird flu outbreak were accidentally fired over the weekend, an action the agency is trying to correct.

USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.