Posted on 02/06/2025 1:02:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(Reuters) -The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
White House on Thursday denied it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.
According to the Wall Street Journal, under the order, which could come as soon as next week, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies would have to cut a certain percentage of employees.
Officials have been told to prepare lists of probationary workers who have essential roles and must be retained and those who don't, the newspaper reported.
The report comes after the Trump administration last week offered 2 million civilian full-time federal workers an opportunity to stop working this week and receive pay and benefits through Sept. 30 as President Donald Trump seeks to slash the size of the government.
The Department of Health and Human Services employs over 83,000 people, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Agencies within the department are task with an array of functions, including tracing the current bird flu outbreak and other viruses.
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Headline lies. HHS bureaucrats are not “health workers .”
Fantastic news! Very hopeful.
White House preparing order to cut thousands of federal health workers, WSJ reports
Yahoo! News ^ | Thu, February 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM CST |
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White House on Thursday denied it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.
WTF!?
And don’t give deadlines with choices. Just do it.
We’re all gonna die! Oh no, when grandpa needs to be resuscitated, there’ll be no health worker there! First fire the paper shufflers who’ve been prioritizing the butchery of children while real medical situations end horribly.
They are NOT health workers, meaning nurses, etc. paper pushing, bean counting bureaucrats.
Mengele’s employees were “health workers”.
Lol.
Has anyone here (or a relative) been affected by Pres Trump’s cuts?
I have an uncle who works in IT for NOAA...but don’t know if he has been affected. He is contractual.
Just curious .
Fired!!
I wonder who leaked on the Wall Street Urinal.
Every non-essential government employee not working during the COVID BS should be fired...
nonessential /nŏn″ĭ-sĕn′shəl/
adjective
1. Having little or no importance; not essential.
Paper pushers. The title is health and human 3ervices.Human services is a large part of the “mission” Human services covers Federal gimmiestuff programs like welfare, child care payments, SNAP,homelessness support, etc.Hopefully a large part of those terminations are the human services paper pushers, most of whom work in their jammies at home
One thing that made Rush Limbaugh such a great conservative talk show host was his “daily media tweak.” Can you imagine if a president started doing that? Well....heh, heh, heh....
the fact that Musk wants none of them to work remote any more makes me wonder if he knows a large percent of these workers don’t even exist.
They’re just ghost employees set up to enrich someone else.
Exactly. Cutting bureaucrats that would have no idea how to treat anyone for anything. Paperwork pushers.
Now we know who can pick the crops
And how many patients to they take care of. That's right zero.
You beat me to it.
Exactly what I was going to type.
Be interesting to find out how much of their budget goes to Ukraine.
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