Employees all overComprehensive reformIt is designed to reduce the agencies responsible for protecting the health of Americans significantly.

The discounts includeResearchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leadersThe federal government, without many major experts who have long directed the United States’ resolutions on medical research, pharmaceutical approvals and other issues.

“The revolution begins today!” Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior He wrote on social media while he was celebrating his latest employment: Dr. Jay Bahtasharia, The new director From the National Institutes of Health and Martin Macari, New Food and Drug Administration Commissioner. Kennedy’s publication came just hours after the employees started receiving email hairstyles. He later wrote, “Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs,” but said that the administration needs “calibration” to confirm the prevention of diseases.

Kennedy announced the plan last week to reshape the department, which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and spreading diseases, conducting and financing medical research, and monitoring food and medicine safety, as well as about managing health insurance programs for almost half the country.

The plan will enhance agencies that oversee billions of dollarsAddiction servicesCommunity health centers under a new office called the administration for America’s health.

HHS said that workers’ layoffs are expected to provide $ 1.8 billion annually – about 0.1 % – from the administration budget of $ 1.7 trillion, most of which are spent on medical health coverage and Moodyid for millions of Americans.

HHS workers ‘demobilization is expected to reduce 62,000 jobs, which leads to nearly a quarter of its employees – 10,000 jobs through workers’ demobilization and 10,000 other workers who took retirement and early voluntary semester. There are many jobs in the Washington region, but also in Atlanta, where the United States is based on controlling and preventing diseases, and in smaller offices throughout the country.

Some employees have begun to get the termination notifications in their inbox at 5 am, while others discovered that their jobs were eliminated after standing in long lines outside the offices in Washington, Maryland and Atlanta to see if their badges are still working.

Some gathered in local cafes and lunch sites after their removal, and discovered that they had been eliminated after decades of service.

One of them asked loudly if it was a joke on April’s harsh lie. In addition to confusion, some workers ’discharge notifications included instructions to file equality complaints in employment to a person who died in November.

In the National Institutes of Health, the discounts included at least four managers of the 27 national health institutes and centers who were placed on an administrative leave, and nearly the communications staff were terminated, according to a senior leader of the agency, and they spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed to avoid revenge.

An email seen in the Associated Press explains that some employees are at a large level in Betisda, Maryland, the campus who was placed on leave, have been offered a potential transfer to the Indian health service in locations that include Alaska and were granted until the end of Wednesday to respond.

At least nine high -ranking managers were placed in the Disease Control Center on leave, and the reset of the Indian health service has been provided. Some public health experts outside the agency have seen an attempt to obtain the veteran agency leaders to resign.

At the Center for Disease Control, Union officials said the programs were eliminated due to the demobilization of workers who focused on smoking, poisoning, armed violence, air quality, safety and occupational health. The entire office, which takes over the requests of the Freedom of Information Law, has been closed. Infectious diseases programs have achieved great success, including programs that fight the outbreak of disease in other countries, laboratories that focus on HIV and hepatitis in the United States and employees trying to eliminate tuberculosis.

In the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), dozens of employees who organize medicines, foods, medical devices and tobacco products received notifications, including the entire office responsible for formulating new regulations for electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products. The notifications cameThe head of tobacco in the Food and Drug Administration has been removed from his position. Elsewhere in the agency, more than ten press officers and communications supervisors have been notified that their jobs will be eliminated.

“The FDA, as we have known, has ended, with most leaders who have institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of the development of the product and its safety is no longer working,” Robert Calif, FDA Commissioner (FDA). Calif stepped at the end of the Biden administration.

The notifications of workers’ demobilization came a few days after President Donald Trump moved to strip their workersCollective negotiation rightsIn HHS and other agencies throughout the government.

“Congress and citizens must join us in payment,” said Evere Kelly, President of the American Federation of Government employees. “Our health, safety and security depends on the strong public health system and the entire employees.”

Democratic Senator Patti Murray from Washington predicted that the cuts will have repercussions when they hit natural disasters or infectious diseases, such asThe outbreak of continuous measlesSpreading.

Murray said on Friday.

Dr. George Benjamin, Executive Director of the American presence, said that the intention of cuts to the Center for Disease Control is the establishment of a “much smaller and infectious diseases”, but it destroys a wide range of work and cooperation that enabled local and national governments to prevent death and respond to emergencies.

The discounts were less severe in Medicare and Medicaid service centers, where the Republican administration of Trump wants to avoid the emergence of health insurance programs covering nearly half of the Americans, many of them poor, disabled and the elderly.

However, the effect will remain perceived, as the department has reduced many workforce in the Minority Health Office.

Jeffrey Grant, the former deputy director of CMS, said the office is not part of the diversity, shares and integration program, the Republican Administration of Trump Al -TayebEnd up.

“This is not the Dei initiative,” said Grant, who resigned last month and is now helping to put CMS employees in new jobs.

behind Workers ’layoffs in federal health agencies, cuts in government and local health departments begin as a result of HHS step last week to withdraw more than $ 11 billion of funds associated with Covid-19. Lori Trimmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of Officials in the province and the city, said that some health departments have set hundreds of jobs that will be eliminated, “some of them during the night, and some have already disappeared.”

An alliance of state lawyerLay a lawsuit against the Trump administrationOn Tuesday, on the pretext that the discounts are illegal, it would reflect the progress in the opioid crisis and will throw mental health systems in chaos.

HHS did not provide additional details or comments about the launch of the mass fire on Tuesday, but on Thursday, it provided a detail of some discounts:

• 3500 jobs in Food and Drug AdministrationWhich inspects and sets safety standards for medicines, medical devices and foods.
• 2,400 jobs at the Center for Disease Control, which monitors the outbreak of infectious diseases and works with public health agencies worldwide.
• 1,200 jobs at the National Health Institutes, the world’s leading medical research agency.
• 300 jobs in CMS, which oversees the market of care law at reasonable prices, medicare and medicaid.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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