USA. Mass cuts. Employees learned about dismissals from bodyguards

The Trump administration began mass dismissals of 10,000 American employees of healthcare agencies, “Reuters said, citing sources. Security guards were to prevent some employees from entering buildings.

Cuts that apply to the main agencies subject to the Health and Social Welfare Department, including the FDA and CDC and National Health Institutes, are part of the wide plan of the President of the USA Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk – said the Reuters agency.

These activities are aimed at reducing the federal government and reduce expenses. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He described the cuts as necessary to improve the devastated bureaucracy.

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The cuts included the removal of leading scientists supervising public health, cancer research and approval of vaccines and medicines, which raised concerns about how United States will react to crisis situations.

“Our hearts are with those who have lost their jobs. But the reality is clear: what we did, does not work,” Kennedy wrote on platform X, adding that the changes were necessary to focus on the Department (HHS) to focus on the basic mission of preventing chronic diseases.

The departure from the food and medicine agency, considered the best medicine regulator in the world, included Peter Stein, the director of the New Drug Office at his branch of the Drug Assessment and Research Center.

Brian King, head of the FDA tobacco product center department, was also released. This happened after Peter Marx, the highly valued FDA vaccine clerk – pointed out the Reuters agency.

“The FDA we knew is finished, and most of the leading representatives with knowledge and deep understanding of the development and safety of products are no longer employed,” wrote former Commissioner Robert Califf in the entry on LinkedIn.

“I think that history will consider it a huge mistake,” he wrote. “He will hear interestingly from the new management how they plan to re -assemble 'Humptty Dumpty'” – he added.

People waited in line for hours, not knowing what would happen

In the center of Washington, employees, when they tried to get to the building where several offices and HHS departments were located, were informed by bodyguards that they were released.

“Dozens of people were released in this way,” said one of the employees. Among them was a deaf person for whom the security guard had to enter on the phone the message that she was released.

The FDA employee said that at the entrance to the building it was necessary to show IDs, and those who were released, business cards were issued and ordered to go home. People waited in the queue for hours, not knowing what would happen when they reached the entrance – emphasized the Reuters agency.

The business cards had phone numbers up to ten different departments, under which employees were to call to pick up their “necessary” equipment.

CPT can practically not regulate tobacco products

The dismissed employees also received emails in which it was written that the termination was not related to their service, results or behavior. They learned that they were transferred to administrative leave.

One of the sources to which the Reuters agency reached, indicated that the leave reflected the requirement of a trade union regarding 60-day notice.

Cutting at the FDA tobacco center was fully covered by the Management Office and the Regulation Office – said former director Mitch Zeller. – I think that means that CPT can practically not regulate tobacco products – he added.

Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which replaced Anthony Fauci, was released from her position and was offered her work at the Health Service Indian.