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Thousands of federal health agencies have been left to purify the Trump administration, chaotic and slow during the weekend.
Although the total number of employees who were rejected is smaller than he was originally expected, the changes were planted to confusion because some employees received the termination notifications during the weekend, while others waited for the expected shooting. This includes CDC’s members Epidemiological Intelligence ServiceFellowship program for two years trains the next generation of “Diseases Investigators”.
One of the employees from the agency inside HHS who asked not to reveal his identity “chaos and confusion” as a leadership “tries to sort this everything.
Initial reports suggested that about 5,200 employees in HHS agencies – among about 80,000 employees – will be abandoned, but on Tuesday the totalitarianism was unclear. The focus was on “test” employees, or those who generally work during the first year of their work.
MedPage today The completion of each agency was summarized below.
Medical and public health communities criticized this step, led by the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency in Elon Musk, or Dog.
Eight former leaders of the Federal Health Agencies within the framework of the Biden Administration – including the Director of the National Institutes of former Health Monica Bergenoli, PhD in Medicine; Former CMS manager Chiquita Brokes-Lasure; Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Calv, PhD in Medicine; And director of the former diseases control center Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH – A message signed In support of employees who shot.
The former leaders wrote in the letter: “The Trump administration has now begun to remove HHS employees arbitrarily from their positions, and it has left no doubt that the health and well -being of families and societies throughout the country will suffer as a result.”
“These individuals are not numbers on a spreadsheet,” the message. “They are loyal and emotional government employees who committed their professions to work on behalf of the American people.”
The letter concluded that “we owe them with gratitude, not a pink slip.”
Jeff Neesbit, Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at HHS, Share “Thank you” message It was signed by 140 former political appoinals who worked along with HHS civil service staff during Obama and Biden departments, including former HHS Secretary Xavier BECERRA.
“Please note that the time and energy you invested in your work is not to be identified,” the message mentioned. “We appreciate all your efforts, especially your focus on providing care for those who struggle. You embody the task and vision of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.”
Robert Steinbruck, director of the Public Citizen, which has long been a fork on the side of federal agencies – especially the FDA (FDA – “called” a disaster for public health “.
“There is no rise to this,” Steinbrok said. MedPage today. “From the outside, it seems meaningless.”
Steinbrok said: “Employees must be reduced from time to time for budget reasons in many organizations, and there are ways to do this carefully and take into account individuals and organizational needs – and there are ways to do so.” “This is exactly the way not to do so.”
Here is a look at the effect on individual agencies:
CDC
While reports originally stated that about 1,300 employees are under observation – about 10 % of the workforce at the Disease Control Center – it will be cut, the number has decreased to about 750, according to NPR.
While colleagues were informed of the agency’s epidemiological service in the first place that they will be abandoned, as of Tuesday, they did not receive emails to inform them of their completion, according to multiple sources in the Center for Disease Control MedPage today.
These sources said that all colleagues from the laboratory driving service at the LLS control center were launched on Friday and Saturday. LLS was created about a decade ago, following a series of laboratory failures. LLS colleagues help the center of disease control and state laboratories to improve the test and meet federal standards, According to Associated Press
FDA
About 700 FDA employees have been abandoned, according to Associated Press. This included employees in the centers that work Food products, medical devices and tobacco products.
Ross Sigga, MD, Master of Business Administration, Head of Medical Devices Safety, Master, has also been terminated Stat I mentioned. Sejan had only started his job in September, so he was arrested in a two -year test period inside the agency.
A large number of employees were completed from the agency’s department, which Stat I noticed a tense relationship with Elon Musk Neuralink.
Finally, Jim Jones, Deputy Commissioner for Human Food in the Food and Drug Administration, resigned, after they lost 89 people in his ministry their jobs, According to Washington Post.
“I was looking to work to follow the agenda of the department of improving Americans’ health by limit mail. “It was increasingly clear that with the Trump administration contempt for the people needed to carry out your business schedule, however, it was not fruitful for me to continue this role.”
National Institutes of Health
Between 1000 and 1,200 employees from the National Health Institutes were terminated on Saturday, according to NPR A few hundred of 1500 Initially.
CMS
Politico I mentioned The employees working in Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) centers have been abandoned, along with employees in the CMS office that supervises the law of care at reasonable prices.
Ariel Kane, who was separated from CMMI, Posted on X She and her completed colleagues were “working to improve the results of the mother’s health at fewer costs so that the least pregnant women died in this country. I thought this would fit well in your business schedule?”
Other agencies
It is not clear how many people from the Parents Organization HHS. Reports indicate that the discounts were made to the administration of children and families, as well as the Strategic and Response Management Management.
Renee WegrZyn, PhD, Opening Director of the ARPA-H, which was created in 2022, Advertin on LinkedIn It is “no longer [has] The opportunity to serve “as its manager. It is not clear that the number of employees separated from ARPA-H.
Also, while the Indian health service was initially based on about 950 employees, the recent HHS manager Robert F. Kennedy Junior I canceled that termination.
And during that‘Not HHS, many healthcare professionals work in the Old Warriors Affairs Department. The Ministry of Affairs of the Veterans Affairs issued a press release On February 13, he announced that he had rejected more than 1,000 employees, especially in the test period.