Posted on 04/02/2025 6:13:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have been given a choice: Move out of DC or resign.
HHS began executing 10,000 layoffs as part of a massive restructuring of the department’s convoluted organization chart on Tuesday, according to several news reports. Thomas Nagy, deputy assistant secretary for human resources at HHS, began sending layoff notices in the early morning, immediately placing thousands of employees on administrative leave.
But some bureaucrats in leadership roles, including senior executive service members, were offered a deal: They could be retained in government service but would have to relocate to an Indian Health Service post.
For instance, Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products Director Brian King was offered a position at the Indian Health Service office, the Washington Post reported.
Some leaders of the National Institutes of Health’s 27 institutes and centers were likewise offered transfers to Indian Health Service offices like the one in Alaska and were given until Wednesday to respond, according to the Associated Press. Other Indian Health Service offices are found in cities hundreds of miles from Washington, DC, including Albuquerque, New Mexico; Bemidji, Minnesota; and Billings, Montana.
FDA Office of New Drugs Director Peter Stein was offered a reassignment to the patient affairs desk but declined, according to trade publication Endpoints News.
“I was offered a reassignment’ in ‘patient affairs’ (as they were required to do) or termination (after admin leave). I declined the offer (as ridiculous) so am on administrative leave,” Stein told the outlet.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on March 27 that the Department of Government Efficiency would be eliminating duplicative administrative functions across the department such as human resources and media relations. The restructuring would also involve enabling the agencies’ many disparate IT systems to communicate with one another and share depersonalized health data, he announced.
A March 27 Office of Personnel Management memo revoked collective bargaining rights for several HHS divisions including the HHS Office of the Secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Anthony Fauci’s former division, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
It also revoked bargaining rights from chief information officer roles. DOGE has been operating in CIO roles.
“...HHS began executing 10,000 layoffs...”
I was hoping they were executing the corrupt DC employees. /spit
Hey some parts of Alaska are actually very nice!
we want jail time for those that pushed the fake covid vaccine on children, not just firings!
This is how you get rid of snobs that just wanted to sashay around DC on the tax-payers dime, and write off their lunches as business expenses.
All good stuff. The major disappointment so far is the lack of serious legislation being passed by Congress.
Paoha, Hawaii is underdeveloped. Just tell them the assignment is in Paradise.
This is another example of the administration following ideas that have been discussed here in the past couple of months.
I know our friends in Alaska do not want a leftist infestation—but they need not worry.
DC bureaucrats are spoiled rotten—no way they will make the move.
Context matters.
This is just the beginning of the job cuts and the elimination of grants and contracts.
They should be mostly complete by the end of summer.
Then is the time for Congress to start codifying them in the next year’s budget.
Right now Congress does not even have real numbers to work with...
Repeal Obamacare
Adak would be ideal.
“Hey some parts of Alaska are actually very nice!”
Yes, indeed.
So are parts of Montana, but I don’t care much for Billings...
I somehow do not think these bureaucrats will last there too long (though it does have a growing season 30 days longer than Bozeman — just trying to say something nice about it).
** jail time for those that pushed the fake covid vaccine on children, **
—— hangings for the lying drug pushers and producers of.
That's like Omaha. We say at least we're not Fargo.
The bureaucrats should jump at a chance to relocate to Bemidji, MN. It is a beautiful place, has a state university and an active arts community. Winters can be harsh and it is off the beaten track, but a quite livable place. My wife and I have a cabin near Bemidji and look forward to spending our summers there. The Ojibwa people that the IHS serves in the area are working hard to improve things for their tribe and preserve their culture and language. I taught for a semester at their tribal and it was a great experience.
They are on vacation again because the house daycare center is not good enough. They want to vote from home while taking care of their baby
There are a lot worse places than Alaska. They could be reassigned to Memphis.
A DC judge will rule that this violates the “safe harbor” DC bureaucrats are entitled to.
Alaska is pretty safe.........except for the bears..........
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