Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
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#3Cue the measles outbreak in 3... 2...!
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#5Everything Musk et. al. is doing seems to me to be the analog of a junior developer joining and wanting to rewrite everything.
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#6Cue the measles outbreak in 3... 2...!
There's already an outbreak in Texas.
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#7What is happening at these agencies is absolutely crazy. National parks are understaffed and worried about the upcoming season.
It seems the admin just wants to gut everything, and the only reason to me seems privatization. Make all these agencies dysfunctional, tell people look how bad is, let's get bids from private companies that can do a better job at dollars.
I hope this is not the case.
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#9Looks like its not just health-related agencies. Many/most people hired by US government agencies in the last two years seem to be being let-go. Some of them will be tech workers, but also engineers, scientists, clinicians, administrators, rangers, educators. People who use this site.
"Some 280,000 employees out of the 2.3 million member civilian federal workforce were hired in the last two years, with most still on probation and easier to fire, according to government data."
"About 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy were laid off, including hundreds of employees from the office that oversees the nuclear stockpile, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-fired-trump-musk-...
Looks like absolute carnage, and its hard to see how the US government is going to maintain its operational capacity. As for the CDC being gutted, better hope these bird flu and measles outbreaks don't do a covid.