Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services say they are braking for standing roofs, as secretary Robert F. Kennedy is close to his final decisions about the Junior and his assistants.
Several senior health officials have been told that Kennedy and their team are expected to make decisions about the department’s makeup and organization changes. The assistants have begun drafting the reorganization announcement, an official said.
The department did not respond to the request for comment.
In addition to the White House’s formal head Government Performance Department Team, Emi GlassenThere are several other members of the Dodge HHS employees. Some former insurance executives have been deeply involved in projects Brad SmithWho was a senior official of medical and medicid during the first Trump administration.
Many workers have already been fired after the White House reorganization and “reduction in force” plans in the department, or by other movements in the country’s health agencies, such as the country’s health agencies. First attempts To clean thousands of The trial workerEliminate the Fellowship Program and terminate the contracting contracts.
Here we know about reorganization in several agencies within HHS, based on talks with more than a dozen health officials who did not have the power to speak publicly.
Agency for healthcare research and quality
For some senior leaders, the workforce has been deducted by HHS and Dodge officials. In an agency inside HHS, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, DOGE officials told leaders March 11 to expect 90 % of their staff to be cut.
The agency has around 300 employees, many of whom have been assigned to collect and analyze the federal government’s most widely referred matrix related to healthcare, including Decades old datasis Entering the hospital and tracking of an emergency room is on a nationwide tour, which researchers with economists and health policy relies on.
AHRQ also works on numerous programs with Congress financial support to deal with patients’ safety and health care accidents, such as Program Antibiotic resistant bacteria are to fight.
“The current staff is about 45 45 highly skilled economists and statistics. Dodge wants to reduce the six total staff. Six people who are ready to live under these conditions will not be the best.” Medical costs.
Centers for control and prevention of diseases
In the disease control and prevention centers, some managers have been told to expect deductions from the department, which can allow 30 % of the staff of the Atlanta to reach 30 %.
At the end of the last financial year, the CDC used to work around 12,820, Federal Record Show more than 10,487 during the last year of the first Trump administration.
“30 % of the cut will be disastrous,” a CDC official said. We are already buried in several key areas and the crew, which is barely holding it together, has been in various stages of Burnout for five years. ”
Some of these deductions can be obtained by employees who are volunteering. The agency’s managers were told that about 350 350 workers have tried early retirement and have applied for more than 400 purchases, an official said. Offered This month, crossing the HHS.
Others can be obtained by resetting the agency’s functions. A proposal by officials weighing will be transferred to the CDC HIV prevention work in the department.
Food and Drug Administration
Unlike other health agencies, some groups of Food and Drug Administration workers were told that they were ineligible to take HHS The purchase offer.
This includes new drug applications, whose salaries are not primarily taxpayers, funded by the fees paid by drug makers while obtaining approval.
Other people in the agency have also been asked to prepare. The FDA managers have told employees internally that they are out of the loop on the scale and goals of deductions.
The Dodge officials have made several visits from the agency’s Maryland headquarters, an official said. Another said that the Dodge officials were asking questions around the FDA labs this week.
Several FDA employees said they expect some deductions to be deducted through what has been said to the growing brain drain in the agency, which is being caught with a difficult return transfer, which is unlikely to easily. An employee said hundreds of retirement requests are being processed in the agency.
Employees said the FDA’s headquarters was more than the staffing work than that.
National Institute of Health
From the workforce at the National Institutes of Health, officials are expecting cuts like the Trump administration’s level of deduction.
More than 21,000 people worked at the end of 2024 fiscal year through the Medical Science Research Agency, which was more than 17,705 at the end of the financial year of 2019.
Like other agencies, it is possible that scientists and other workers can be deducted through voluntary departure. One person said he had heard in meetings that about 1, 1,400 searched either purchase, initial retirement or both.
One person said that up to 3,800 employees could be cut off from the agency’s payroll, if not high, it depends on how many staff can be counted with departure.
Medicare and Medicated Services Centers
Kitbacks may be smaller in medical and medical services centers, some suspects, since the agency is already facing the limits of serving under the Biden administration.
The agency’s chief operating officer had just said earlier last year that he could resume his job after healing in his financial affairs, after his financial affairs. Reported In November
In 2024, the Baltimore agency had 6,557 employees, which was slightly slightly from the workforce of 6,074 in 2019.
A CMS official said he had heard internally that the initial retirement and purchase purchase by employees in some parts of the agency could probably be enough to save the rest of the agency’s staff.
Administration of abuse and mental health services
Several workers within the administration of abuse and mental health services with material say they have not heard anything from the agency’s leadership about potential deductions.
Some are hopeful that a letter to Kennedy on behalf of House Democrats To condemn reports Half of the agency’s staff can be cut off that it can stop the standing roofs.
The agency’s manpower, which acquired 916 workers at the end of the last financial year, had less than 521 employees at the end of the first Trump administration.
The firing of probationary workers earlier this year has already resulted in More than 10 % The agency is being cut off, including employees working on 988 hotline projects for those facing mental health crises.
Dr. Selen Gonder cooperated in this report.
