EAmerican Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) has known that the demobilization of collective workers would come on April 1. But many did not expect the discounts to be very deep – or that the effects of workers’ layoffs may be harmful to the health and welfare of American families.
The demobilization operations came in many formats: in emails at 5 am, personally, when the employees tried to pass their badges at the workplace and found that they were activated, in the messages while waiting for the queue to try to enter their offices, according to the current and former employees.
HHS announced for the first time.Dramatic restructuring“On March 27, it would reduce HHS to 62,000 employees from 82000, including about 10,000 workers’ demobilization and about 10,000 people retired or resigned. In a press release, the department He said It will unify 28 divisions in 15 new parts, describing the reorganization as “a shift to make America healthy again.”
Dozens of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that oversees food safety, including administrative employees, project managers, human resources, and communications employees, according to the current and former employees who were interviewed by TIME, who included workers’ demobilization on April 1 (FDA) that oversees food safety, including administrative employees, project managers, human resources and employees Communications. It appears that an entire part of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that oversees the cleanliness of cruise ships, and it seems that employees are managing the requests for the Freedom of Information Law at the Center for Disease Control. The staff of the low -income home energy assistance program, which helps keep facilities for troubled families. All regional officials of community life management, which oversees programs that support older adults and persons with disabilities, exempt them from their duties. Five employees of the ten regional offices of the management of children and families – which oversee programs such as temporary assistance to needy families (known as food stamps).
HHS did not return an email and contacted the request for comment or confirming these cuts. But in the news statement on March 27, World Health Minister Robert F. said. Kennedy Junior The administration “reduces the bureaucratic extension” and that the smaller administration will do more, at a lower cost to the taxpayer.
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The prominent leaders appear to have been targeted. Jin Mirzo, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and behind Dr. Anthony Fushi, was placed on an administrative vacation, as Jonathan Mermin, director of the National HIV Center, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis and tuberculosis employee.
“They remove the teams, offices, and the entire departments – which will leave our nation’s impact less ready to deal with a variety of health challenges,” says Adrian Shankar, who was the Deputy Assistant Minister for Health Policy in the Biden Administration. “It seems that cruelty is the point.”
The cuts come as HHS also cancels $ 11.4 billion from the Kofid era, which was providing basic services at the local level. Societies already feel the effects. Uplift Wissonsin, a call line that is operated through Wisconsin’s mental health, will be closed by April 4 because the Covid-19 grant has been canceled, according to Reporting before Milwoki Journal Sentenil. “The Covid-19 pandemic has ended, and HHS will not be lost billions of dollars in taxes that respond to an unaware of the Americans have moved years ago,” the department. He said In late March.
In the demobilization of the first of April, it appears that the programs of infectious diseases, especially HIV research, was targeted. Before the employees’ layoff, HHS announced the end of dozens of Grants related to HIV research.
“It is just a tremendous assault on HIV prevention – he really focuses on preventing hope and research,” says Karl Schmid, CEO of the Institute of Hepatitis Policy in HIV, who tracks workers’ demobilization. The discounts have affected the employees of the Presidential Consultative Council on HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS, and more, he says.
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Communications employees are especially important as new HIV/AIDS treatments are launched. For example, there is a new version of the preparation of HIV drugs (pre -exposure prevention), he says, and communication employees are responsible for ensuring that patients and service providers know about new drugs. White men may reach preparatory, but certain groups of people are not, including transgender, black men and Latin men. “I expect HIV to rise, and this will be more expensive for our system,” says Schmid.
The HHS Memorandum said on March 27 that it will reorganize community life management, which oversees programs that support the elderly and persons with disabilities. However, all regional officials of community life administration were laid off, along with all employees who oversee grants, according to Alison Parkov, who was an Actober official from January 2021 to 2024.
Congress has allocated funds for local and state groups that help the elderly and persons with disabilities, but there is no employee to manage it. The community living administration often helped the elderly and persons with disabilities to live at home and avoid facilities.
“I don’t know when they will get this financing, and many of them cannot go for a long time without access to financing and continue to provide these services,” she says.
One of the logical workers in community life management is Fi Gordon, a single mother of two children who are undergoing breast cancer and the official of District 9. She helped coordinate the response to disasters for the elderly and people with disabilities.
“We are the ones who provide care and service so that people can live at home and in their community,” she says. “The fact that any leadership will not appreciate this meager and effective service is a calamity.”
Sarah Sorser, director of organizational affairs at the Science Center in the public interest, says that it is too early to know the impact of workers’ demobilization on food safety, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was already struggling to create and impose regulations even before they were destroyed. After calling for the 2022 formula, where infants were transferred to the hospital after drinking polluted powder formula made from the Abbott Laboratory Factory, the FDA was subjected to a dramatic regulation. There is now uniform Human food program This oversees inspections and food safety.
“This program is very small, there is no big way to make discounts before losing its performance.”
