The reduction of 10,000 full -time positions is added to the deletion of thousands of jobs in the ministry, which has been released since Trump’s office in January due to voluntary dismissals and early retirements. According to the information, the number of full -time positions in the Ministry of Health decreases from 82,000 to 62,000.
The Ministry assured that state health insurance companies would “remain intact Medicare, Medicaid and other essential health services. Department chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that the restructuring would concentrate on combating widespread chronic diseases in the US population. Kennedy had mentioned this as a priority before taking office.
In the future, the Ministry of Health will “do much more” than in the past, and this “at lower costs for taxpayers”, emphasized the minister. However, Kennedy is highly controversial – mainly because of its many vaccine -critical statements of the past, which often existed in false and misleading statements about vaccine. In view of the current measles outbreak in the southwest of the United States, Kennedy had recently spoken out for vaccinations against the disease.
Kennedy leads the Ministry of Health under the motto “Make America Healthy Again” (“makes America healthy”) – a reference to Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” (“makes America great again”). Among other things, he wants to fight the widespread overweight in the US population. By focusing on “safe, healthy food, clean water and the eliminations of poisons in the environment” should be contained by the focus, his ministry said on Thursday.
The drastic job cancellation in the health department follows the general line of Trump, which operates a radical reduction in the authority apparatus with the support of his advisor Elons Musk. Tens of thousands of employees have already been released or were voluntarily eliminated. However, there is now a flood of lawsuits against the clearing against the clear cut in the federal authorities.
