Robert Kennedy Jr. Has personally reduced staff in the Center for Disease Control in its new role as a health leader, so that the purification of government services was carried out by President Trump and Elon Musk.
The newly confirmed Minister of Health and Human Services for President Donald Trump fired nearly half of the praised team of 'disease elections' during his first day at work, thereby establishing the scene for a decorated department.
The entire incoming class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) was reportedly told that they are no longer necessary as part of 1,300 fired from the CDC.
These employees generally investigate outbreaks of diseases, both in the United States and abroad, and are highly educated and performed experts with PhDs or Masters in their field.
“This will destroy the requirement, one of the absolute crown jewels of global public health,” said director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota.
But Trump promised to reduce the bloated bureaucracy on his return to the White House, where billionaire Elon Musk was hired to outweigh wasteful expenditure as head of the Ministry of Efficiency of the Government.
After being sworn, RFK Jr. The staff they had no reason to fear their job if they 'give public health'.
“If you have been involved in good science, you have nothing to worry about,” he said.
The newly confirmed Minister of Health and Human Services for President Donald Trump fired nearly half of the praised team of 'Disease Electives' during his first day at work
The entire incoming class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) was reportedly told that they are no longer necessary as part of 1,300 fired from the CDC
'If you care about public health, you don't have to worry. If you work there for the pharmaceutical industry, I would say that you have to move and work for the pharmaceutical industry. '
It is understood to mean that these cutbacks were part of a broader plan to focus on probation staff, who can be rejected much more easily than employees in the long term.
About 1,270 probation staff – of the 2,800 – were planned to be fired, accounting for 45 percent of the probationary period and one in 10 of the entire staff of the CDC.
A total of 5,200 probation workers in various authorities, namely the CDC, National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Indian Health Service, were expected to be dismissed.
According to Forbes, the staff began to receive letters who told them: “You are not suitable for continuous employment because your assets, knowledge and skills do not match the current needs of the agency.”
Managers were previously asked to rank the probationary period, but in the end Trump -adjusted Trump -took the latest decisions about who stayed and who left, reported CBS.
'Many are young staff of all the training programs that have succeeded in finding a job after they were ready. Now their dream is being canceled, “said an insider.
Contractors were also terminated on Friday. A affected employee said they were told that they were “terminated for convenience.”
About 1,270 probation staff – of the 2,800 – were planned to be dismissed, accounting for 45 percent of the probation work and one in 10 of the entire staff of the CDC
US President Donald Trump embraces Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After Kennedy was sworn in as secretary of health and human services
RFK Jr. Had said on Thursday that he had a 'generic list' of employees he intended to clear.
According to AP, about 700 people within the CDC had received notifications of termination from the early Sunday afternoon.
The dismissals reportedly also reached the food and drug administration, despite earlier reports the agency was saved.
Recently adopted employees who assess the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products, began to receive notifications on Saturday evening that their jobs were eliminated, according to three FDA employees.
The agency has long been suspected that it is a target of Kennedy, who last year accused the FDA of waging a 'war against public health' for not approving unproven treatments such as psychedelics, stem cells and chelation therapy.
“There are entire departments, such as the food department of the FDA who should go, who don't do their work, they don't protect our children,” Kennedy said earlier.
Trump tapped the 70-year-old former Democrat to be the best health officer in the country with the mandate to “make America healthy again” after he withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed the Republican candidate.
But Kennedy was put under the microscope for his controversial views from the past about vaccinations, abortion and for promoting conspiracy theories.
He promised that Americans could still take as many vaccines as they wanted, but said he wanted to study and make them safer
He promised that Americans could still take as many vaccines as they wanted, but said he wanted to study them and make them safer.
“If people are happy with their vaccines, they must be able to get them,” he said.
Kennedy also promised to preserve the food choices of America, even if they were unhealthy.
“That's what I say if you want to eat a Big Mac you should do,” he said.
He added that there were ways to make fast food healthier, by removing unhealthy additives and offering incentives for fast food companies to use sebum fat instead of seed oil.
“We want to do a number of things, but don't take away from people,” he said.
