Posted on 02/19/2025 3:27:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of current and former federal employees rallied Wednesday outside the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, protesting recent firings and their effect on public health, and directing much of their ire at Elon Musk and his agency’s efforts to cut spending.
Amid frigid temperatures and light snow, attendees chanted slogans such as “Funding, not freezes” and “Stand up, fight back.” They carried signs proclaiming, “Protect civil servants because they protect you!” and “In science we trust.”
Many said they were there to fight the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the confusion its workforce reductions have sowed. One sign altered the DOGE acronym to read “Department of Grifting Everything.”
“Are we going to shut down the illegal Elon Musk takeover of the government? Yeah, you bet we are,” Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen told the crowd of about 300. “We’re going to fight this in the courts. We’re going to fight this in the Congress. And there can be no business as usual in the Congress. And we’re going to fight this in gatherings like this all over the country.”
Ellen Bak, a former NIH scientist, said she was terminated over the weekend and that her research into stem cells and blood cancer had essentially been lost.
“The sheer amount of money and time and testing and care and effort,” she said. “Is it all just gone?”
Jenna McGrew, an 18-year-old student from Florida, said she attended because her older brother, Ethan, suffers from a rare autoimmune disease and is in intensive care at NIH with a serious bacterial infection. She called the “level of uncertainty” inside the NIH “a risk to his life.”
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Yeah its a protection racket but the taxpayers are not feeling very protected
“In science we trust.”
It's "the science." Sheesh. They cannot even keep their own propaganda straight.
Learn to turn a wrench. Just sayin’.
Hundreds? Back when USAID was paying the rent-a-mob, it was 10’s of thousands.
“The sheer amount of money and time and testing and care and effort,” she said. “Is it all just gone?”
Ellen, if you had been keeping proper notes, the research is simply on hiatus. You WERE keeping good notes, right?
Came here to say the same thing. “Hundreds”, rotflmao.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
Science - The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
Science is a process, not a deity.
With the border being secured, there will be lots of opportunities to learn roofing, concrete work, framing, drywall, landscaping…..
So many options!
Tombstones to read “I died because there weren’t enough bureaucrats to keep me alive”.
The anti-Trump banned Associated Press is reporting this. Go figure!
Maybe they’ll release more cooties on the pubic to get their point across.
True but pretty hard to do from home. 😊👍
Trillions already spent. Yet cancer, heart disease and diabetes still plague us. They pull this “you’re gonna die crap every time their rice bowls are threatened.” Yet these maladies get worse.
There is no money in curing disease. The big bucks are in never ending treatments. The worst is the mental health industry. No one is ever cured. Just a lifetime of legal drug addiction. With the side effects of mass shootings, parents murdering their children, etc.
Taste of Clinton...remember it well.
Perhaps ya'll can get TWO or THREE of those (bullshyte) "23 million" (minimum wage) jobs.
"welcome to the party, pal"
They forgot to mention that their “cancer research” is how to PROLONG and EXPAND cancer.
That doesn't happen for the above mentioned creators of wealth.
Some courageous reporter should ask them how it feels to be reduced to being one of the mere plebs that they hate so much.
“In science we trust.”
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They believe humans can change the earth’s climate. So much for science.
You see images of these rejects? Shoot, I wouldn’t trust them to protect my favorite spot on the couch, let alone me and mine!
Dahum!
Public threats alright.
As in....Give us our cushy, no -show, work at home, which is really shop and facebook at home, etc......or we gonna Eff you up on the streets. We’ll Burn this mutha down!
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