Hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promised that the Ministry of Health and Human Services would not undergo a staff treatment, but it would.
The Trump government dismissed half of its epidemic intelligence service, also known as the 'disease elections'. The dismissal has affected 1,260 staff, reported Lewis Kamb from NBC News.
Top officials with the CDC, the HHS substitution that supervises the program, said CBS News That the cutbacks would have a devastating effect on the ability of the country to assess flourishing diseases. They are just a few of the thousands of probation workers who take a hit while the doge of Elon Musk comb the federal government for possible programs to cut.
“The country is less safe,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, an alumna of the Disease Research Program, to CBS. “These are the employable assets that are crucial for investigating new threats, from Anthrax to Zika.”
Many employees who go through the program serve on the front lines of the reactions of public health before they rise later by the ranks of the CDC. Another health officer noted that many of the dismissed staff members were early career professionals who had been trained by the agency.
“Now their dream has been canceled,” said the non -created officer.
Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday. In an interview with FOX News after being sworn, Kennedy promised that employees who were employed by public health “nothing to worry” under his term of office of America's health policy.
“If you have been involved in good science, you have nothing to worry about,” said Kennedy. “If you care about public health, you have nothing to worry about.”
Kennedy's role as secretary of HHS will have him monitor A budget of almost $ 2 trillion and a staff of 90,000 federal employees, and the reins of other critical health programs under the fold of HHS, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The “Make America Healthy Again” agenda of the 71-year-old is not in details, but Kennedy has vaguely promised to tackle the rising obesity rates of the nation and Snap benefits (previously known as food vouchers), and has claimed that He will work on the Ministry of Agriculture eradicate Ultra -repressed foods from the American market.
