She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she’s been put on leave

Jenna Norton, a program director with the National Institutes of Health, says she has been put on leave following the end of the government shutdown. She spoke critically of the Trump administration both before and during the shutdown.

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration’s funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

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