The preliminary memorandum to which the American chain And that has already been sent to Department of Health and Human Servicesanticipates a Federal spending cut in tens of billions of dollars a year.
The document, dated April 10, also advances a Strong 40 % cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionaccording to the proposal.
If this plan was approved, they would also consolidate dozens of health programs and departments under the Administration for healthy America (AHA, for its acronym in English), which would be headed by the secretary of HUMAN HEALTH AND SERVICESRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
This new measure is part of the plans of Kennedy for restructuring the Health Departmentportfolio for which he is responsible, and with which he already started on April 1 a wave of layoffs of workers from various agencies linked to HHS.
These mass dismissals occurred in a context of erosion of the rights of federal workers, after signing a Executive order to end collective bargaining with agencies unions with National Security Missions like your own CDC.