With a $9.2 billion core budget, the CDC is charged with protecting Americans from outbreaks and other public health threats. Before the cuts, the agency had about 13,000 employees, including more than 2,000 staff working in other countries. ...
Friday's offer is part of the Trump administration's efforts to slash the size of federal workforce and shrink the government's budget through mass layoffs and financial cuts . That process has been primarily carried out through the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, ...
The article reports on $15.5 billion in budget cuts which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will encounter on March 1, 2013 as a result of U.S. government imposed sequestration. The impact the cuts will have on the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, ...
The latest move to reduce the number of federal health workers comes as the the CDC is assisting with a deadly measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico and as lawmakers are debating deep cuts to Medicaid in the federal budget. HHS workers are directed in the email to reach...
Friday's offer is part of the Trump administration's efforts to slash the size of federal workforce and shrink the government's budgetthrough mass layoffs and financial cuts. That process has been primarily carried out through the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led ...
The first ripple will likely be felt at FDA. There, industry disquiet over device user fee increases threatens the whole program, even as budget cuts affect other areas. The agency's state of drift became acutely embarrassing to the White House last year. Drug safety and field enforcement issu...
When it comes to federal agencies, ASPR is remarkably efficient. With a budget and staffthe third smallestamong all the agencies at HHS, ASPR supports states responding to wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, pandemics, and other major disasters that exceed the resources of local jurisdictions. ASPR...
The mass email went out to a “broad population of HHS employees,” landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces. HHS is one of the government’s costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mos...
” said Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a nonprofit that studies and supports the US public health workforce. “Cutting your home budget might be a good idea, but not if it means your kids starve. Makes one wonder who will be left at HHS to lead...
RFK JR. TAKES OVER HHS —Robert F. Kennedy Jr.was sworn in to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, andhis plans for the agencycould make Elon Musk’s budget-cutting spree look small in comparison, POLITICO’s Chelsea Cirruzzo, Daniel Payne and Adam Cancryn report...