A growing number of FDA employees are eyeing the exits as chaos and uncertainty sweep through the agency, according to internal text messages obtained by Axios.

“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 current employees. “I don’t know that I’ve talked to anyone who’s happy there.”

The turmoil, presided over by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr, hit new levels after the resignation of George Tidmarsh, the FDA’s top drug regulator, who stepped down amid a lawsuit accusing him of using his position to retaliate against a former business associate.

Tidmarsh denied the allegations, telling The New York Times he believed he was b

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