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Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food
WTOP News ^ | April 1,2025 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/01/2025 7:57:10 AM PDT by cgbg

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people....

An email viewed by The Associated Press shows some senior-level employees of the Bethesda, Maryland, campus who were placed on leave were offered a possible transfer to the Indian Health Service in locations including Alaska and given until end of Wednesday to respond.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


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Alaska--as many of us suggested.

This is going to be a big day and big week for layoffs, firings etc. I will post further updates as they are covered by mass media.

Unconfirmed reports say there are long lines at HHS buildings around the country as employees are being fired on the spot at security--their badges have been invalidated.

Many entire regional offices have been closed today.

Stay tuned for updates.

1 posted on 04/01/2025 7:57:10 AM PDT by cgbg
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Headlines: Women, seniors and minorities hit hardest.


2 posted on 04/01/2025 7:59:49 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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Good. We’re broke.


3 posted on 04/01/2025 8:01:37 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: cgbg
Our public servants masters that abused us by locking us down, impoverishing and denigration us, are finding that payback is a bitch. I haven't stopped smiling since Trump 47 was elected.
4 posted on 04/01/2025 8:07:01 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: cgbg

I am not worried. Our food supply is already full of poison. Maybe with some shake ups things will get better.


5 posted on 04/01/2025 8:07:12 AM PDT by Alainamac ("It may be a fire, but you gotta' get it into your heart.")
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Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food

The AP headline translated:

WE'RE. ALL. GONNA. DIE!!

(Doing my best Sam Kennison imitation here)
6 posted on 04/01/2025 8:07:15 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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The scientists and doctors are all going to be “following the science” to the unemployment office.

The lab animals they tortured are getting the last laugh.


7 posted on 04/01/2025 8:12:01 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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“offered a possible transfer to the Indian Health Service in locations including Alaska”

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Now That’s Funny.

I knew people who were stationed in Alaska and they loved it.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 8:12:07 AM PDT by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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Yup—for those who don’t know the “Indians” are actually Eskimos—and many of their villages are only accessible by dog sleds for many months of the year.

I know a person who worked for HUD in Alaska and had to take dog sled to visit many of the Eskimo public housing projects.

They loved the dogs and didn’t mind the work—but most metro DC feds will quit before making the move.


9 posted on 04/01/2025 8:15:07 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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Based on their record to date, their elimination is no loss.


10 posted on 04/01/2025 8:15:10 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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The lab animals they tortured are getting the last laugh.

LOL!
11 posted on 04/01/2025 8:17:36 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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... their badges have been invalidated.

None of them comes into the office, anyway.

12 posted on 04/01/2025 8:19:16 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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Yup—for those who don’t know the “Indians” are actually Eskimos

Watch the series Alaska Daily....see how life is.

13 posted on 04/01/2025 8:25:15 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeon<p.s)
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To: AAABEST

A lot of black Americans disproportionately make up a sizeable chunk of the federal civilian employment. I noticed that NPR started doing news bits pointing this out about a month ago when DOGE was going to work. I can guarantee you NPR is working to develop a news story that they will continue parroting to the effect that “Trump intentionally tried to hurt blacks with layoffs”.

There is no question in my mind they will launch a big expose on this at some point just to see how much damage they can cause.


14 posted on 04/01/2025 8:29:21 AM PDT by MachIV
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Yup—so this is unconfirmed at this point, but employees that say they have received “you are fired” notices today include folks from these HHS sub-groups:

—Office of Acquisition Services
—Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (supposedly entire division gone)
—Center for Tobacco Products (supposedly entire division gone)
—National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
—Center for Devices and Radiological Health
—CDC Division of HIV Prevention (supposedly entire group gone)
—Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
—Economist got fired (wonder what they were doing there—lol)
—CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
—National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
—CDC Division of Digital Media (gone)
—FDA Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research
—Center for Veterinary Medicine

lots lots more....


15 posted on 04/01/2025 8:31:04 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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lots lots more....

I love the smell of winning in the morning. That smell, that ozone smell. It smells like...Victory!

Thousands and thousands of ZOTS!

16 posted on 04/01/2025 8:35:18 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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Has the Ass. Press been “fact checked” for accuracy on this?


17 posted on 04/01/2025 8:41:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's great that 27 year old Karoline Leavitt has every Democrat on the planet peeing their Depends.)
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Fancy sounding names for offices full of lazy schlubs who surf pron all day.


18 posted on 04/01/2025 8:45:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Yup—I just got tired of typing all the different divisions and offices that have been nuked today.

Every time you get rid of a division you save operating costs plus you stop the slimy grants for huge sums of money.

This will weaken the political clout of leftist universities and NGOs.

They had a great gravy train while it lasted.


19 posted on 04/01/2025 8:47:43 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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More details here on CDC cuts:

https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/


20 posted on 04/01/2025 8:58:48 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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