Washington (AP) – Most of the 80,000 federal employees who are responsible for researching diseases, inspect food and manage Medicare and Medicaid as part of the patronage of the Health and Human Services Department, to leave their job for a payment of 25,000 US dollars as part of President Donald Trump.
Employees can only start on Monday and submit an answer for the so -called voluntary separation offer on Friday until 5 p.m. The E -Mail was sent to the department’s employees, including the centers for the control and prevention of diseases in Atlanta and the National Institutes of Health as well as the Food and Drug Administration, both in Maryland.
The mass -e email went to a “broad population of HHS employees” and ended up days before the agency heads in their inboxes Due to plans for reducing your workforce. HHS is one of the most high-priced federal authorities in the government with an annual budget of around 1.7 trillion dollars, which is mainly spent on health insurance for millions of people who are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
The agency monitors health insurance for about half of the country by Medicare for older adults and medicaid for disabled and destitute Americans.
There was no immediate comment on Sunday from HHS.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Trump’s health secretary indicated plans for deep cuts in the staff. Last year, he promised to immediately clear up 600 employees at NIH, the country’s biomedical research. He did not go that far, but in an interview in the last month, shortly after he was sworn in last month, Kennedy said that he wanted to remove some workers from the public health authorities.
“I have a list in my head,” said Kennedy about potential shots in the agency. He said that some workers “made really bad decisions” about nutritional guidelines.
The Trump administration with the facilitate of Billionaire Elon Muschustried to get federal workers out to reduce the costs. In January, most of the federal employees received a postponed resignation with eight months of wages. Thousands of ProbationThere were also released through federal authorities, also in HHS.
The latest step to reduce the number of federal health workers comes because the CDC is supported by A Deadly measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico and how the legislators discuss deep cuts Medicaid in the federal budget.
HHS employees are instructed in the e -mail to contact their local personnel office in order to submit to the voluntary separation.
