Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to responding to infectious-disease outbreaks.

As the dust settles from the first wave of firings at health agencies, here's how many people got cut, and the impact of the roles that were lost.

Reducing the price of groceries—a key campaign promise made by U.S. President Donald Trump—has thus far ranked low on his administration's list of priorities, but mass firings at numerous federal health agencies over the weekend suggested that scaling back efforts to ensure proper nutrition for infants,