Posted on 04/01/2025 12:18:27 PM PDT by cgbg
A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work...
At the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the entire Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights – which handles issues of diversity, civil rights and a supportive work environment – was let go, according to a former HHS employee.
The notices sent to staffers in the office suggested that they contact the former director of the office if they had a complaint — but that director passed away late last year...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The "follow the science" crowd may have to try a seance for any complaints.
Lol.
Bloodbath!
wonderful news! I know it;s not a blood bath, but just unnecessary positions being eliminated.
They say health agencies like we are talking about medical facilities but we know better. These so called health agencies are nothing but bureaucrats.
Nothing the commercial sector hasn’t experienced over and over.
NIH, for example, will shrink by 20,000 employees - 10,000 through EARLY RETIREMENT and the rest by terminations. The “big cuts” in funding are to reduce admin allowances on grants from ~25% to 15%. Likely in line with private sector research facilities.
NIH funds about $48B in grants and research, while private sector funds about $160B. While there will be reductions in grants, I doubt the truly important ones are cut.
Why NOT reduce public funding of research?
Whatever it is, it is not enough.
I didn’t see headlines like this when Obama and Biden were destroying the US coal industry.
Also, keep in mind that if we cut one million federal workers, we’d be back where we were when Biden took office. So Trump is firing workers who were hired within the past four years for the most part.
My daughter and her friend are affected by these cuts.
My daughter had a stop-work on a research paper she was working on. Her friend was laid off from a state agency because of the cuts.
I told her that private-sector employees have had to contend with these things for hundreds of years. Deal with it.
The temporarily unemployed workers will cut back on spending (permanently insofar as they were massively overpaid in government positions) and this will give leftists talking points about the economy pulling back according to economic statistics. But the real increase in goods/services will be felt by the American people even if the stats don't show it. The result will be an inversion of the Biden years: Under Biden huge government spending made for rosy economic statistics, but pulled people away from useful and productive jobs resulting in polls showing people in distress. Now we will have the opposite.
All that is missing to make this day complete is a judicial order that the dead department head be reinstated.
Lol.
The Washington Post calls it a “purge”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/
Oh please a “bloodbath” -CNN trash
Good point.
When FJB shut down the Keystone Pipeline at the cost of tens of thousands of jobs, Jen “Circle Back Psaki” said they could sell solar panels instead.
And yet, their absence will have no negative effect on healthcare.
They are useless bureaucrats.
Good riddance.
Learn to code.
“These so called health agencies are nothing but bureaucrats”
And reliable Rat voters. DC has gotten so bloated with do nothing jobs it has turned Virginia from red to blue.
The Guardian calls it an “overhaul”—good picture at the link btw:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/trump-health-agency-layoffs-cuts
Good
Go Trump!
I wonder how many conservatives worked in that government office handling issues of 'diversity'..
Yay! Maybe they’ll fire some of the useless bean counters at CMS.
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