RFK Jr, who has never led a large organization and is crazy is “reorganizing” American public health:
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a broad reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
With the DOGE layoffs that will make it about 20,000 total in just a couple of months.
The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America. “We’re going to do more with less,” Mr. Kennedy said, even as he acknowledged it would be “a painful period for H.H.S.”
It’s all Biden’s fault, of course:
Mr. Kennedy said rates of chronic disease rose under the Biden administration even as the government grew. He pitched the changes as a way to refocus the agency on Americans’ health, but did not outline any specifics on how he would mediate rates of diabetes, heart disease or any other condition.
He’s cutting 3500 jobs from the FDA, 2400 from the CDC, 1200 from the NIH and the rest from Medicare and Medicaid.
Here’s how the wrecking ball is going so far:
Dr. Robert Califf, the F.D.A. administrator during the Biden administration, said his team worked with staff to drum up support for an 8,000 person reorganization to change how its divisions for food and facility inspections operate. Given how morale-crushing the second Trump administration has been for the department, with many staff members laid off on the false premise that their performance was subpar, the effort could be all the more challenging.
“If you are coming to work sick to your stomach, as Russell Vought said he wanted them to,” he said, referring to the head of the Office of Management and Budget, “then people are not going to be able to collaborate as well. They’ll be suspicious of each other, right?”
Mr. Califf said such a sudden and massive reduction in staff and reorganization could also disrupt services and safety oversight that the public relies on.
Speaking of trust:
Mr. Kennedy also suggested in the video that the changes would help his team get more access to data, a prospect that has been fraught, given Mr. Kennedy’s long history of manipulating figures to advance arguments about the harm of vaccines that have widely been deemed safe.
Wow. You go New York Times, telling it like it is.
Apparently, Bobby’s mad about that. Some of the staff there actually tried to keep him away from ” closely guarded databases that might reveal the dangers of certain drugs and medical interventions.”
This is just one more tragedy befalling us because a demented old man seeks vengeance on his own people. It’s beyond Shakespearean. It’s Biblical.