#HHS had been assigned a total amount of savings from CXL contracts -of that total amount CMS was resp for just >$2.7B -amounted to 35% of CMS’s aver total spend on contracts from the years FY2023 & 2024.

CMS’s work is almost entirely contracted out. IT component: resp for at least $750M of that -no way to cut this much w/o somePARTS OF THE SYSTEM SIMPLY CEASING TO FUNCTION. So they’ll come up with a proposed plan, warn about what'll break & wait to hear back.

#USPol https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-axe-rises-over-medicare-and-medicaid

Fed judge temporarily blocks $11B in Trump admin's cuts to #publichealth funding to states after 23 states & the DC sued to keep the funding intact.

The coalition of states sued the #HHS & RFK Jr, arguing that theis used for many "urgent public health needs," incl tracking diseases, funding access to vaccines & mental health & addiction services, & improving health INFRAs. The AGs allege that thefunding was "abruptly & arbitrarily terminated" on Mar 24.
#Courts #USPol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-public-health-cuts-states-lawsuit/

Call your member of #Congress re: devastating cuts to #HHS. You need to enter your location to be directed to your reps. This script is a shade mild for my taste, and doesn't put enough emphasis on cuts to specific #health and #research programs, but you can add and improvise. https://5calls.org/issue/hhs-health-human-services-cuts/

"Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/03/g-s1-57888/hhs-fda-rfk-foia-public-records

The Trump administration is requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to cut spending on contracts by 35%, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon confirmed to NPR.

The spending cut is across all divisions of HHS – which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies.

#HHS #FDA #NIH #Medicare #Medicaid #CDC

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/03/g-s1-58145/hhs-fda-cdc-cuts-spending

"The #Trump administration terminated the entire staff who were running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United States pay their heating bills. It comes as the President has even put tariffs on a place that has no humans and only penguins."

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/entire-staff-fired-office-helps-1069814
#USpol #HHS #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #MAHA #MAGA #kakistocracy #NoMoreFreeRideForThePenguins #CantMakeThisShitUp

Mass layoffs of communications staff at #HHS including #CDC. IF You're one of these people and looking for a volunteer project, DM me! https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/hhs-layoffs-communications-recalls-safety?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscommunicators&stream=business

Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life according to Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner and chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 Task Force

In this video, “he talks with Rachel Maddow about the devastating effects of Donald Trump's cuts to HHS, not only in dismantling important services, but compromising U.S. medical & scientific leadership to a degree that may not be recoverable for decades.”
#uspol #hhs #fda
https://youtu.be/im9vHZwsZ04?si=zxhi4YL3qaApg3Ye

Requesting insights into #HHS #FDA reassigning [in lieu of firing] highly qualified, expert scientists to Indian Health Services requiring relocation to Alaska Oklahoma or New Mexico. Are there any jobs for these folks - how or if this actually works? thank you. #firings #healthcare #medicine #publichealth #IHS

How's the layoffs going? #doge #elon #hhs #health #RFKjr #trump #maga

"...laid-off employees were instructed to file any discrimination complaints they may have with Anita Pinder, identified as the director of CMS’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights. However, Pinder died last year, The Washington Post noted." #doge #health

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-bloodbath-at-hhs-blowback-grows-as-losses-become-clearer/

When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, the FDA relied on Dr Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies April 1.

RFK Jr & #DOGE terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals Tues. We’re all about to pay the price.

#Firings #HHS #FDA #Sabotage #Health #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #DOGE #Trump #USPol
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday

"If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone." #RFKJr is well on the way to being the deadliest serial killer in American history.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday

Make America Healthy Again!!!!!

Mayo Clinic researchers lose cancer grant after cancellation by Trump administration
https://www.twincities.com/2025/04/02/mayo-clinic-researchers-lose-cancer-grant-after-cancellation-by-trump-administration/

Good headline, Charles!

RFK Is One of the Greatest Weirdos to Ever Occupy a Position of Power—and His Policy Choices Prove It
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64367637/us-health-agencies-massive-layoffs-rfk-jr/

#HHS has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.

All of the staff who worked on Social Svcs Blk Grants *help states & territories pay for social svcs that protect ppl, incl children, from neglect & abuse, were let go."

So low-income Americans, that may be a lot of us, after #Trump's policies & Musk's #DOGE #Firings & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...

#Austerity #Trumpcession #USPol https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/

"Drugmakers made a calculated risk during HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation process in choosing not to publicly criticize a nominee who called their products dangerous.

They’re starting to reconsider.

After the firing of thousands of Department of Health and Human Services employees on Tuesday, industry trade groups that have mostly sought to curry favor with the new administration began to express alarm."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/the-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159

A bit in the weeds but insight into disfunction of this White House. Would you trust these people with your public health? Surface and promotion over substance.
#hhs #whitehouse #publichealth #Spear #confidencescheme #conmen #snakeoil

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/rfk-jr-messaging-problem-trump-white-house