HHS offers a $ 25,000 purchase offer for most of its employees
WASHINGTON (AP) – Most of the 80,000 federal workers have sent responsibility for the search for diseases, food examination and medical and medical care department under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services via e -mail an offer to leave their work for up to $ 25,000 as part of government discounts of President Donald Trump.
Workers cannot start choosing until Monday and enjoy until 5 pm on Friday to provide a response to the so -called voluntary term. Email was sent to employees throughout the department, which includes the centers of diseases control and prevention in Atlanta, the National Institutes of Health as well as the Food and Drug Administration, both in Maryland.
Collective email moved to a “large number of HHS employees”, and fell in their inbox days before the agency’s heads Because plans to reduce their working bases. HHS is one of the most federal government agencies by the government, with an annual budget of about $ 1.7 trillion that is often spent on covering health care for millions of people registered in medical and medical care.
The agency oversees the health insurance of almost half of the country through medical care for the older adults and Medicaid for the disabled and the American poor.
There was no immediate comment Sunday from HHS.
Robert F. Kennedy JuniorMinister of Health, Trump, alluded to plans in deep discounts for employees. Last year, he promised to remove 600 employees immediately at the National Health Institutes, the country’s biomedical research arm. He did not go to this extent, but in an interview last month after a short period of right last month, Kennedy said he wanted to remove some workers from public health agencies.
“I have a list in my head,” Kennedy said about the potential shootings of the agency. He said that some workers “made really bad decisions” regarding nutrition instructions.
Trump administration, with the help of Billionaire Elon MuskHe was trying to pay federal workers in an attempt to reduce costs. In January, most federal employees received a deferred resignation offer with eight months of wages. Thousands of Researcher employeesAlso, it was separated through federal agencies, including in HHS.
The last step to reduce the number of federal health workers comes because the Center for Disease Control helps in a The outbreak of deadly measles in West Texas and New Mexico And since legislators discuss deep discounts Medical aid In the federal budget.
HHS workers are directed at the email to access the local human resources office to be submitted for a volunteer semester.
