A week ago, the Trump administration laid off thousands of people at HHS and its agencies.
The cuts were so deep, and touched so much, we're still learning about the impacts.
Here are a couple stories that have stood out to me.
1) @levfacher.bsky.social on the gutting of a pain-research office.
The cuts were so deep, and touched so much, we're still learning about the impacts.
Here are a couple stories that have stood out to me.
1) @levfacher.bsky.social on the gutting of a pain-research office.
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“The abrupt halt has stranded about 1,000 samples of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted pathogens that had not yet been processed, and perhaps dozens more headed to the agency.”
“The elimination of this team means losing the only source of data about the health and behavior of women before, during and shortly after pregnancy.”
(btw- the fact that HHS ran this program is a sign of the remarkable breadth of the agency, to me.)
"The firings send a clear message about how much it values early-childhood programs—and the people who work in them—in a way that could have long-term consequences."
“We’re being cut off at our legs, and they want to make America healthy again?" Carl Schmid, executive director of the advocacy group HIV + Hepatitis Policy Institute, told Fenit.
It's impossible to do a full accounting in any single article.
If all these cuts go through (and some may be blocked by courts), it will take months to sort through what's been lost.
And remember by law the RIF is only legal if these functions aren't transferred anywhere in the gov. This is all lost.