Agency officials across the Health and Human Services Department say they are bracing for steep trim for secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and their associates are closer to their final decision on an obvious restructuring of the department.
Multiple veteran health officials have been told that the decisions on the makeup of Kennedy and its team division and the change in the company are expected within one or two weeks. An official said the assistants had begun drafting the reorganization.
The department did not respond to the request to comment.
In addition to the formal head of the White House Government skill department Team, Amy GlyisonSeveral other members of the day are HHS employees. During the first Trump administration, the top Medicare and Medicaid officials were former insurance executive Brad Smith, some closely involved in the plan.
Under the reconstruction, the expected cut in the section and the “reduction-in-force” plans ordered by the White House are already allowed to go through other steps after many workers or to go to the health agencies of the country, such as other steps, such as Previous attempt To purify the thousands of Entry staffFinish the fellowship programs and finish the contractor contracts.
We the last one we know about the reconstruction of several agencies in HHS, on the basis of conversations with more than a dozen health officers who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Agency for healthcare research and quality
HHS and dose officers for some senior leaders are unprecedented. Officials in Dogs at an agency in HHS, a health care research and quality agency, asked leaders to expect leaders to cut their 90% of their employees on March 7.
There are about 300 employees of the agency, many have been responsible for collecting and analyzing some of the federal government’s federal government’s highly quoted metric, with decades old datasets, including tracking hospital admissions and emergency room inspections and economists and health policy researchers.
AHRQ also works in several programs funded by Congress to resolve patient protection and healthcare accidents like a program to fight against antibiotics resistant bacteria.
“Current staff is about 5 highly skilled economists and statisticians. Dog wants to cut these six workers. Six people who will be willing to stay under this situation will not be the best,” a health officer asked CBS News to oversee a large federal database on medical expenditure.
Centers
In the disease control and resistance centers, some directors have been asked to expect the cuts transferred from the department, which may allow the Atlanta-based agency employees to go up to 30%.
About 12,820 people were appointed by the CDC at the end of the last fiscal year, the federal records show showed that the first Trump administration increased from 10,487 in the final year.
“5% cuts will be destructive,” said a CDC official.
A few of these cuts can be achieved through voluntary departing staff. The directors of the agency were told that about 5 workers had tried to retire initials and about 600 people applied for a bayout, two officials said, under the two officials. Make off the offer Across HHS this month. It is unclear how many workers applied for both.
Others can be re -sorted by the agency’s tasks. A proposal weighing by officials will transfer the CDC’s HIV resistance to the category elsewhere.
Administration of Food and Drugs
Not like other health agencies, some groups of workers in food and drug administration were told that they were ineligible to receive HHS Bayout offersThe
These include reviewers of the new drug applications, whose salaries are primarily funded by the fees paid by drugs, while not taxpayers, but during the search for approval.
Others of the agency have been asked to prepare for trimming. The FDA directors have internally told staff that they were out of the loop on the scales and goals of the cuts.
An official said that officials in Dogs visited multiple visits to the agency’s Maryland headquarters. Another said that Daisy officials were asking questions around the FDA labs this week.
Multiple FDA employees said they hoped that some cuts would be achieved through what they told the growing brain drain in the agency, which has jumped with a challenging return-to-office transition, which is not possible soon. An employee said that several hundred retirement application was being processed in the agency.
More workers on behalf of the FDA worked more than their headquarters, employees said they were shaking for spots in parking lots and offices in the offices and from the toilet paper in the crowded bathroom.
National Health Institute
Officials from the activist forces of the National Health Institutes are hoping to return to the same level of what was seen at the end of the Trump administration.
At the end of the fiscal year 2021, more than 20,7 people were appointed by the Medical Science Research Agency, which was more than 17,70 at the end of the fiscal year.
Like other agencies, it can be created by voluntary exit of scientists and other workers for some expected cuts. One person said that they had heard in the meeting that about 5 people wanted to buy, primary retirement or both.
A person said that the salary of the agency could be deducted from the exit of the agency, depending on how many employees could be calculated from the exit.
Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers
Cutbacks in the centers of Medicare and Medicaid services may be low, some suspects, since the company has already faced the restriction of recruitment under the Biden administration.
The Chief Operating Officer of the agency said late last year that insideholthoplisi said in November, it could resume recruitment after its money.
There were 6,557 employees in the Baltimore-based agency in 2024, a bit higher than the 6,074 staff in 2019.
A CMS official said they had heard internally that in some parts of the agency, the initial retirement and the rest of the employees of the company were enough to save the rest of the time.
The administration of substances
Multiple workers in the abuse of substances and mental health care have said that they have not heard anything from the agency leadership about possible cuts.
Some are hopeful that a letter from House Democrats to Kennedy can stop a letter by condemning the reports that half a staff can be cut from the agency.
At the end of the last fiscal year, the 916 worker number agency’s employees first dropped below 521 employees at the end of the Trump administration.
As a result of the thrust of the entrance workers by Dog early this year More than 10% The agency’s employees are being cut, including employees working on 988 hotline projects for people facing mental health crisis.
Dr. Calin Gounder contributed to this report.
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