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Mass endings and billions of dollar reductions in the Health and Health Services (HHS) have critical programs – from children’s HIV treatment services abroad – and created a “actual hazard” to be disease epidemic, according to former workers.

Workers in HHS, has now led Robert F Kennedy JR, and in public health warned in interviews that would have chaotic, deficient and caring disconnects wide, negative effects across the United States and beyond.

Although Donald Trump Administration is regulated by HHS workforce with 82,000 on 62,000 pumps and redemption, Grant cuts The ELONA MOŠUS autoposition “The Government’s Efficiency Department” also had a protected impact on state governments – and resulted in firing in state public health agencies.

For example, at the Department of Public Health South Carolina, for example, more than 70 staff are fired in March due to reducing funding.

“The disease monitoring is as we know when something unusually happens with people’s health, as when there are more food poisoning than usual or the virus begins to spread in the community,” in which the role was eliminated, he said. “It’s a system that allows us to find out the spots on the spot, we find outbreak early and answer before more people get sick.”

“When you lose health staff, you lose time, lose accuracy, lose your responsibility and ultimately affects human health,” they added. “Without us, outbreaks can fly under the radar, and the answer can be delayed or disorganized. It is a real danger when it cuts these roles.

“It’s an invisible job, until you don’t. You may not think about it day by day, but protects your drinking water, your food, your boys and our community.”

Public Health Spokesperson for Public Health South Caroline refused to comment on specifics, but they noticed employees employed through grants temporary. “When grant funds are no longer available, their employment can be completed, as happened with some temporary employees of grants that funded these grants,” they said.

In Washington, HHS was more difficult to cut the event than any other federal department. Hundreds of grants in state, local and tribal governments, as well as research institutions, were eliminatedworth over 6.8 billion dollars of unpaid liabilities.

HHS receives about a quarter of the Side Consumption, and most are paid to countries for health programs and services such as Medicare and Medicaid, insurance programs; Medical research; and food and drug safety. Trump’s budget proposal requires cutting Discretion expenditure of 26.2%, or $ 33.3 billion.

RFK JR, which has the history of the promotion of conspiracy theories and medical misinformation, appointed Trump and approved the Senate along the party lines, and Mitch McConnell was the only Republican Dissenter.

After reducing the forces of 10,000 employees 1. April, Kennedy JR claimed 20% of the filling was in the error and that these workers would be returned, although it didn’t happen.

HHS spokesman blamed all such errors on data collection issues and did not comment on any other aspects of Guardian reporting.

AIDS AID PROGRAM ‘DISMENTED’

In the control and disease control centers, the operational division of HHS, employees working on the health of the Mother and Child in the President AIDS Help (Pepfar) were shocked to be involved in force, as earlier in the administration received its work before renunciation For parts of the program from the Federal Freeston Funeral.

All Federal HIV prevention experts in children were overseas dismissed as part of a force reduction.

“Our concern initially was that it was a mistake. We were hoping that there was 20% of mistakes, but he was in the middle of the planning and delivery of a new child’s treatment based on this year, and that the job was now on risk.

They said that 22 epidemiologists in the branches of their CDC division was extracted. Pepfar in 2003. Created by George W Bush to prevent HIV transmission for the child and credited With savings of 26 million lives.

“We were very shocked in 1. April that we immediately set up the administrator leave,” said another epidemiologist in the CDC. “We really feel that our branch that cuts was a mistake. The state department said that services are priority and needed to continue, but then we cut us HHS.”

They noticed that HIV treatment had already stopped In the regions of the countries that relied on USAID programs, such as Zambia.

“It is one of the most successful global health programs in history, has been transported by high levels of accountability and a dollar spent in achieving an impact. Our concern is now, but they are falling in all systems and structure that enabled him to succeed,” added. “The United States has made a huge investment in this program, and much is now undone. We have now disrupted these systems that could reduce and eventually remove American investment in these programs.”

‘Long-term influence’ on American families

Within HHS, administration for children and families is responsible for conducting payments to support children in court. For each dollar receives in federal funding, the ACF says it is able to collect $ 5 in children’s support.

Children’s support specialist with HHS who asked to remain anonymous from retaliation, said the work burdens in those who were not exposed to several times, making it that they were also placed tribal agencies in accordance with federal requirements.

“Regional staff with direct supervision is gone,” they said. “There are entire regions that have two staff members who manage the fourth work for a program without management, no support, no knowledge about the program.”

After the trump account took the function, the agency was under an unofficial stop order, where the staff was not allowed to provide guidelines or support gains or even answering the phones, said until the end of February. The reduction of force followed 1. April, when he claimed a specialist to support children, approximately half of the ACF staff work on children’s support.

Their department is responsible for monitoring the support program for children in the state, tribal and local level. States “can lose millions of dollars in financing very well” if the ACF does not provide key training and assistance, and states do not have qualified staff, the specialist is warned. “And that is the long-term impact of endangered children and families in the country.”

They added: “The entire function of the program is to provide economic stability to children and families, so that they do not depend on any other government program or their reliance on these programs lower, because children support both parents.”

‘Live hell’

In the Medicare and Medicaid services centers, as well as the HHS, one of 300 workers stopped As part of the reduction of force, it claims that it was illegal and did not follow any appropriate procedures. National Union for Civil Service filed Complaints over charging methods, including incorrect information on notifications.

They explained that 1. April received a generic letter informed of them on the intention of reducing force. The hours later, they were locked from their government applications. “We started sending email in management, trying to show up about what our status was. No one could give us an answer,” the worker said.

On 7. April they discovered through their salary that they were set up to administrative leave, despite never receiving notice. Did not receive the notice of RIF to weeks later, After requesting him.

“Based on my mandate, and as a Veteran invalid, at least I should have a review for a review,” they said. “I’m not angry about the job loss. It’s happening. I’m laid. He was in the private sector for the first time, and there were a lot more humane, more empathish, and I had different offers.

“This is, on the other hand, inevitable hatred. This administration went from its way to make it a living hell for all their public servants.”