Test workers The sources told CBS News that the multiple federal health agencies in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services received almost identical messages on Saturday evening to inform them that they will be terminated from their positions.
“Unfortunately, the agency finds that you are not appropriate to continue employment because your ability, knowledge and skills are not suitable for the current needs of the agency, and your performance was not enough to justify more employment in the agency,” read the message obtained by CBS news.
The message was signed by Jeffrey Anuka, Acting Head of Human Resources of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services. One of the health officials told CBS News, thousands of messages were sent on Saturday.
Test workers are those who generally have less than a year in the job and the easiest shooting of other federal employees.
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More than 5,000 surveillance workers in health agencies were to be abandoned, although all the termination messages were not received on Saturday. Officials said that some messages were also sent to an error to people who did not aim to give up.
Some agencies were also granted exemptions to a portion of their employees on the cutting block, as they left the reverse reaction to discounts in agencies such as Indian health service.
Also, in the final list of discounts requested by the Trump administration is the epidemiological intelligence service at the Center for Disease Control, “Disease Investigators” learned at the agency. Officials who initially overseeing the fellowship have warned the health departments and those in their ranks that they will become half.
Fellowship programs in other places of the agency were not lucky. The officials said that the public health participant program at the Center for Disease Control, which places new graduates in health departments throughout the country.
Other agencies that inspect employees on Saturday include the Strategic and Response Prepinity Department, which oversees the country’s epidemic stocks, food and drug administration, medical care services centers, medical services and national health institutes.
A White House official said on Saturday that workers who were exempt from discounts included scientists in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration course, workers in medical care outlets and health care providers in the front lines.
The official said: “This is not a random effort from us that surpasses who we can” move away “for that. This is a calculated effort to simplify the bureaucracy.”
Kali means, adviser to The right -wing in The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, on fire for reasons that exceeded cost savings, reported the emphasis on the cash during President Trump’s presidential campaign that officials did not do enough to address the expected life drivers in the United States in the United States
“It will be logical not to make changes,” it means in a post to X.
In the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), one of the employees said on Saturday that scientists, engineers and lawyer are among those who were completed from the ranks of the organizational agency late on Saturday.
Discounts included parts of the FDA to a large extent of fees paid by companies when submitting requests, and not taxpayers dollars – such as centers that oversee the regulation of tobacco products and medical devices.
The losses this week’s discounts extend beyond surveillance workers and colleagues. Many contractors, who have less protection from agency staff, suddenly told them that they are left.
One of the former CDC contractors said they were one of two people in the Atleta -based agency team, which knew how to run a project to analyze electronic health records for diseases.
The only person who knew how to use the project is an employee at the Disease Control Center still under observation.
“I am afraid that they will be overwhelmed and they will end up to drop several projects. The projects have already started to decline while I am there,” said the former contractor -control contractor.
Many scientists who spoke with CBS News said they uprooted their lives to get an opportunity to serve the federal government, and sometimes they take a sharp wage cuts, which could gain in academic circles or the private sector. Others were under observation of employee roles after many years of working in the same agency as a contractor.
One of the previous national institutes of health science said that they reassured them at a tear meeting with the supervisors on Friday that the decision has nothing to do with their performance, and is praising the progress they made at the time since they were appointed.
The scientist of the National Institutes of the former Health said: “Words cannot express enough money.”