US Health Minister Kennedy has released thousands of employees to him. Many of them only got this on their way to work. Some high -ranking officials were offered jobs in Alaska.
The government of US President Donald Trump has started with the masses of health authorities announced by it.
According to photos and experience reports published in the online networks, many of those affected were informed about their dismissal in the early Tuesday morning (local time). Other employees only learned about their release on the way to the office – when the access authorization was blocked for their tasks.
Reduction of 20,000 Full -time positions
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) led by Robert F. Kennedy had announced the deletion of another 10,000 positions at the end of March. As a result, $ 1.8 billion (1.67 billion euros) is to be saved annually, as the Ministry announced. The job cuts are carried out as part of a “dramatic restructuring”, through which the “more efficient” department should be set up.
The reduction of 10,000 full -time positions is added to the deletion of thousands of jobs in the HHS, which has come about since Trump's office in January due to voluntary dismissals and early retirements. According to the information, the number of full -time positions in the Ministry of Health decreases from 82,000 to 62,000. The deletions were developed together with the savings committee of the Tech billionaire Elon Musks, it said.
Before the campus of the CDC health authority in Atlanta, Georgia, people protested against the dismissals.
Kennedy: Focus on chronic diseases
The displacements have now taken place concern the Ministry of Health and the federal authorities subordinate to it, including the NIH, which is subject to the CDC and the National Health Institute under the US government. According to US media reports, several high-ranking officials from these authorities were offered the transfer to remote locations in Alaska or Oklahoma.
According to department head Kennedy, the layoffs are part of a comprehensive reform of his ministry. These goals to concentrate the efforts on the prevention of chronic diseases, he said. Kennedy called it a “difficult moment for all of us”.
Almost half of the departments fall away
The restructuring plan provides for the 28 departments of the Ministry of Health to summarize in 15 departments. This also includes a new unit called Administration for a Healthy America (AHA).
The drastic job cancellation in the health department follows the general line of US President Donald Trump, who operates a radical reduction in the authority apparatus with the support of his advisor Elon Musk. Tens of thousands of employees have already been released or were voluntarily eliminated.
In the meantime there is now a flood of lawsuits.
