Ready, fire, purpose.
Critics fear that the new administration, which has not finished its first 100 days, will move fast and not worry about breaking things, as Silicon Valley likes to explain it.
It might work for a tech startup. It sent chills to those who had spent years working to protect the country’s food. They have a reason to panic, the news reports say.
The head of the Mammoth Federal Operation, which covers food, medicine, health and many other concerns, is a beginner in food safety. Robert Kennedy Jr. is an environmental lawyer, the science of legendary democratic politician, as individually idiosyncratic as seen in the top tier of the federal government. He is not a doctor. He is not a scientist. His My family criticized His personal actions and his defense of conspiracy theories, particularly vaccines. He spoke about him Drug abusestrange Physical illnessand Strange experiences of wildlifeincluding Road Killbear Cub and Beach, and beheaded whales.
In addition to fear and rage, he is the world’s wealthiest person, a self-explained chainsaw change agent whose president is empowered solely to attack the federal government in the name of greater efficiency and savings.
In response to Musk’s fundamental dict order, February HHS gave hundreds of pink slipsmany of them are “probation” employees. That status is not only relatively new to their job, but also recently senior leaders have recently been promoted to new roles and technically to “probation” employees. However, after the protest broke out, many of the dismissed drugs, including protests by large pharmaceutical companies that pay special fees to support the FDA’s national review system, reviewing drugs, medical devices, and rehiring those involved in food safety.
Massive gunfire
Kennedy is a longtime critic of evidence- and science-based medicine and the huge division he is now ahead of, and quickly followed up on HHS’ musk-driven thrashing. Just a few months after he even inkling, he will lead the department, He announced he was planning it. – Reduces bottom reorganization from the top with a total of 20,000 staff. He moves to integrate functions such as HR, IT, procurement and communications and place them more directly under his centralized control.
He began with 10,000 new firings and combined with the 10,000 employees who had already agreed to quit, these highly qualified, highly trained and experienced people took on higher paying jobs in the private sector.
Anger only begins with these changes. Kennedy says it saves $2 billion a year in the department. 2.4 trillion dollar budget And now we have 62,000 staff.
He says the department is more efficient and will focus on different priorities (such as chronic illness). He argues that key areas such as drugs, medical devices and food safety will not be affected. Critics disagree with employees (who wants to continue with reporters) saying that the 3,500 staff members who were eliminated by the FDA alone may not be directly involved in food, medical devices or drug surveillance. But they ask how the rest of the staff are working on their professional work, whether they lack support from thousands of quickly growing researchers, scientists and analysts, while also competing for assistance from HR, procurement, communications and other support staff.
Even before the latest words of mass layoffs fell, The New York Times reported these aspects The chaotic cuts of the administration that pose a threat to the country’s efforts to protect food:
“in [FDA]a freeze on government credit card spending ordered by the Trump administration has prevented staff from purchasing food to run routine testing of deadly bacteria. The state’s $34 million cuts reduced by the FDA will allow the number of employees to ensure that contaminated products like the tin pouch of Leaded Rating Applesauce sold in 2023 will be tested in the lab and are off store shelves…
“And despite the agricultural sector developing advice on better target pathogens that can close the kidneys, a committee studying deadly bacteria has recently been dissolved, and members of the committee were devising educational plans for new parents on bacteria that can live in infant formula.
“Together, there is concern that in the food safety field, the number of outbreaks could potentially avoid growth or detection. Parallel Backwork, which aims to prevent problems by limiting resources and focus efforts on cases where someone has already been hurt or killed, said in 1993 that they don’t have a son or not. What is a good way to save money in our car?” he asked. “Let’s take out the seat belt and airbag.
Kennedy and the rest of the administration say they’re just starting out. Scrutiny is a must for all of us… Stay tuned…
