The government of Donald Trump He has announced a new step towards his publicized adjustment of the administration. According to an official statement published Thursday, he plans to promote a “drastic restructuring“In the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will result in the suppression of 10,000 jobs.
Through early retirements and the so -called “deferred resignations”, the HHS will see its template reduced by a quarter, going from 82,000 full -time employees to 62,000, because at 10,000 announced this Thursday the 10,000 employees that have already voluntarily opted to leave their positions are added. According to the department, this restructuring “will save taxpayers 1.8 billion dollars.”
“We are not only reducing bureaucratic expansion. We are resetting the organization to its main mission and our new priorities to reverse the epidemic of chronic diseases,” said the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to ‘The Wall Street Journal’, which has had access to internal documents, will be affected by the 3,500 employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which represents approximately 19% of the staff of that agency, as well as 2,400 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which in their case account for 18%.
1,200 jobs of the National Health Institutes (NIH), or 6% of its workforce, and 300 positions of the Medicare and Medicaid Service Centers (CDS), 4% of their workforce will also be suppressed. The changes also imply that regional offices will be reduced from 10 to 5.
“This redesign will be a solution in which everyone wins for taxpayers,” said Kennedy Jr. in the official statement.
The declared objective of the Government is to reduce from 28 to 15 the number of agencies of the department.
