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Nonilex

#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system

The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.

The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….

#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
reuters.com/business/healthcar

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Nonilex

No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.

It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.

#RFKJr#Trump#HHS
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Nonilex

Even before he took office, #RFKJr warned #health ofcls that they should pack their bags, & on Tues, he defended the cuts: “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” RFKJr posted. He [says he] is focused on “realigning #HHS w/its core mission: to stop the chronic #disease epidemic & Make America Healthy Again.” But instead of improving how the federal health bureaucracy works, RFKJr is throwing his agencies into #chaos.

#PublicHealth#ConspiracyTheories#science
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petersuber

Update. The Dept of Health and Human Services (#HHS) can no longer fulfill requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (#FOIA), at least not without "exponentially" longer delays and backlogs. #RFKjr — who promised "radical transparency" — fired the staffers who handled those requests. A spokesperson said the layoffs will "streamline" the department and the work "will continue".
npr.org/sections/shots-health-

#DefendResearch#Trump#USPol
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Kim Perales

CMS’s work is almost entirely contracted out. IT component: resp for at least $750M of that. There's no way to cut this much w/o some🚨PARTS OF THE SYSTEM: CEASING TO FUNCTION. So they’ll come up with a proposed plan, warn about what'll break & wait to hear back.

#HHS had been assigned a total amount of savings from CXL contracts -of that total amount CMS was resp for just >$2.7B -amounted to 35% of CMS’s aver total spend on contracts from the years FY2023 & 2024.

#USPol talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

TPM - Talking Points Memo · The Axe Rises Over Medicare and MedicaidBy Josh Marshall
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Kim Perales

Fed judge temporarily blocks $11B in Trump admin's cuts to #publichealth funding to states after 23 states & the DC sued to keep the funding intact.

The coalition of states sued the #HHS & RFK Jr, arguing that the💰is used for many "urgent public health needs," incl tracking diseases, funding access to vaccines & mental health & addiction services, & improving health INFRAs. The AGs allege that the🚨funding was "abruptly & arbitrarily terminated" on Mar 24.
#Courts #USPol

cbsnews.com/news/trump-public-

www.cbsnews.comFederal judge temporarily blocks $11 billion in Trump administration's cuts to public health fundingA judge in Rhode Island on Thursday blocked $11 billion in public health funding while a lawsuit from 23 states and D.C. plays out.
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Bruce Mirken

Call your member of #Congress re: devastating cuts to #HHS. You need to enter your location to be directed to your reps. This script is a shade mild for my taste, and doesn't put enough emphasis on cuts to specific #health and #research programs, but you can add and improvise. 5calls.org/issue/hhs-health-hu

5 CallsProtect Public Health: Oppose HHS Workforce and Program Cuts ⭑ 5 CallsThe Trump administration is decimating our nation’s federal public health infrastructure at a devastating pace, making sweeping cuts to the Department …
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies."

npr.org/sections/shots-health-

#healthcare#HHS#FOIA
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Mark Martino

The Trump administration is requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to cut spending on contracts by 35%, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon confirmed to NPR.

The spending cut is across all divisions of HHS – which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies.

#HHS #FDA #NIH #Medicare #Medicaid #CDC

npr.org/sections/shots-health-

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