The Trump administration on Thursday introduced an enormous layoff of 10,000 staff on the Well being and Human Companies Division, as a part of a dramatic reorganization designed to deliver communications and different capabilities instantly beneath the purview of Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The layoffs, reported earlier by The Wall Road Journal, are a drastic discount in personnel for the well being division, which now employs about 82,000 folks. Along with earlier layoffs, the transfer will deliver the division all the way down to about 62,000, the company stated.
The restructuring will embrace creating a brand new division referred to as the Administration for a Wholesome America, which Mr. Kennedy stated will go by the acronym A.H.A. “We’re going to do extra with much less,” he stated, whilst he acknowledged it will be “a painful interval for H.H.S.”
The 28 divisions of the well being company will probably be consolidated into 15 new divisions, based on an announcement issued by the division. Mr. Kennedy introduced the adjustments in a YouTube video.
Mr. Kennedy’s division touches the lives of each American. By way of its varied companies — together with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Meals and Drug Administration and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being — it regulates medication, displays meals security, tracks infectious illness and conducts biomedical analysis.
All of these companies have campuses outdoors of Washington and have a tendency to function beneath their very own authority, and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them. Mr. Kennedy assailed them, and different elements of the division, in his video.
“Once I arrived, I discovered that over half of our staff don’t even come to work,” he claimed. “H.H.S. has greater than 100 communications workplaces and greater than 40 I.T. departments and dozens of procurement workplaces and 9 H.R. departments. In lots of instances, they don’t even speak to one another. They’re primarily working within the silos.”
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