The weekend's chaos at the Food and Drug Administration is prompting questions around how much more the agency can take before its functionality is seriously impaired.

Why it matters: An agency is only as good as its workforce, and after months of high-profile departures and open hostility from top health officials, some argue the FDA's performance is already deteriorating.

Text messages from current FDA staffers shared confidentially with Axios show people disturbed by the turmoil and increasingly motivated to leave the agency — a threat heightened by how many experienced career officials have already left. • "If they could get enough money elsewhere, if they could get remote jobs, if they could get as much vacation, they would just leave," a former FDA staffer told Axios, speaking of

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