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First in Fox: The department of Health and Human Services (HHS) still uses more people than in 2019, despite the “Democratic Hysteria” about recent recent within the agencies of the department, he learned exclusively digital.
A senior Trump administration official told Fox News Digital that there have been 6,000 HHS departures since January 20, the day of the inauguration. The agency, however, still uses almost 6,000 people more than in 2019, including more than 2,000 employees in the Food and Medicines Administration (FDA) in relation to the 2019 and 1,200 numbers employees in the Centers for Control and the Disease prevention (CDC).
Hiring at HHS shot between fiscal year 2019 and 2024, said the Trump Administration official, with 17% more full -time employees by 2024. Fifty percent of the general works in the US . Direct, direct governmental ones, he added official.
“Democratic hysteria about The essential offices in the HHS are sacrificed: again, each operational division has a more or more stagnant staff in relation to the 2019 fiscal year, said a senior Trump administration official to Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump, on the right, signed an executive order created by the Make America Healthy Again commission after the confirmation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Getty images)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed and sworn as the 26th Secretary of Health and Human Services of the country on Thursday, when president Donald Trump He also signed an executive order created by the Make America Healthy Again commission, which is “investigating and addressing the fundamental causes of the United States health crisis.” Initially, the Commission will focus its investigations on chronic children’s diseases, such as autism.
The news reports extended shortly after Kennedy’s confirmation that generalized layoffs were addressed to HHS employees, even within the CDC and FDA. The Trump administration is in the midst of working to rationalize the federal government by reducing excessive spending and eliminating fraud or poor potential management, which has included mass layoffs in several agencies.
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The head of the FDA Food Division, Jim Jones, presented his resignation letter on Monday, according to several news reports, arguing that the “indiscriminate dismissal” of the administration staff in their division will be an “obstacle to achieve the declared objectives of the secretary to make the United States healthy again. “
The hiring of health and human services shot between fiscal year 2019 and 2024, said a senior Trump administration official, with 17% more full -time employees by 2024. (Jacqueline Larma/The Associated Press)
“I really wanted to work to follow the agenda of the department to improve the health of Americans by reducing chronic diseases and risks related to chemical diet in food,” Jones said. “It has been clearer and clearer than with the disdain of the Trump administration for the same people necessary to implement their agenda, however, it would have been unsuccessful for me to continue in this role.”
Federal employees also organized a protest outside the HHS at the Washington, DC, on Friday, while a cohort of academic unions throughout the country is gathering the scientific community to join another protest outside the HHS on Wednesday, announced as a “National Action Day”.
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The Trump administration He explained to Fox News Digital that those who were finished during the weekend included test employees, who are individuals recently hired by the agency and who are still under consideration for long -term employment.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed and jury as the 26 Secretary of Health and Human Services of the country on February 13. (Jon Cherry/Getty images)
“Not people who have an essential ‘institutional’ knowledge for a long time,” said the administrator official about the finished.
The recent HHS that eliminated during the weekend did not include key -centered emergency preparation and response within the strategy preparation and response administration (ASPR), CDC and other HHS divisions, nor eliminated scientists of the CDC or the national institutes. of health or frontline health suppliers in the health service of India, employees who work in Medicare and Medicaid in the Service Centers of Medicare and Medicaid, or those who review and approve medications or performance of inspections in the FDA .
In addition, employees who work in the resettlement of refugees within the administration of children and families were exempt from the dismissals of the weekend.
“The cuts we made in the HHS during the weekend did not compromise the health and safety of the Americans,” added the administrative official.
Kennedy promised during his Senate confirmation audiences which would examine the previous modus operandi of the department, would eliminate possible financial conflicts and ensure that tax dollars were spent both healthy foods for Americans and providing “impartial” scientific reports.
“We will ensure that our tax dollars support healthy foods. We will write to chemical additives in our food supply. We will eliminate financial conflicts of interest in our agencies,” Senate’s finance committee told the Finance Committee when describing their objectives. “We will create an honest, impartial and driven HHS, responsible before the US president and the American people.”
Both Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, and President Donald Trump, on the left, committed themselves to the campaign to “make the United States again healthy”, including the direction of his focus on the Autism among young people in recent years. (Jason C. Andrew/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Both Kennedy and Trump appeared in the campaign campaign “Make America healthy again“, including the direction of its approach to autism among young people in recent years. The recently coined Maha Commission will investigate chronic conditions for both adults and children, including those related to autism, which the White House said it affects that it affects One in 36 children.
The commission is expected to publish “an evaluation that summarizes what is known and what questions are regarding the crisis of chronic children’s diseases, and include international comparisons”, within 100 days after the foundation of the Commission. In 180 days, it is expected that “a strategy will produce, based on the findings of the evaluation, to improve the health of children in the United States,” Fox Digital said.
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Since Kennedy’s confirmation, legislators at the state level have introduced a wave of invoices aimed at advancing priorities defended by Kennedy and the Maha movement, including the prohibition of junk food such as sweets and soft drinks school lunches and other bills aimed at amending state vaccine rules.
Alec Schemmel of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.