« on: April 07, 2025, 08:17:46 pm »
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-federal-layoffs-health-food.htmlThis story slipped through last week but I had to laugh at it...Fauci's wife was reassigned into the U.S. Indian Health Service and transferred to an Indian reservation.
The Trump administration laid off thousands of federal health workers on Tuesday in a purge that included senior leaders and top scientists charged with regulating food and drugs, protecting Americans from disease and researching new treatments and cures.
Layoff notices began arriving at 5 a.m., workers said, affecting offices responsible for everything from global health to food safety. Senior officials based in the Washington area and Atlanta were reassigned to the Indian Health Service and asked to choose among locations including Alaska, Oklahoma and New Mexico — a tactic to force people out, employees said.
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A number of top health officials received notice that they were being reassigned to regional offices of the Indian Health Service, which is responsible for providing federal health services to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
At N.I.H., several institute directors — including Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the institute formerly led by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci — were reassigned. So were Dr. Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, the head of the N.I.H. Office of Bioethics, and Dr. Clifford Lane, a close ally of Dr. Fauci’s who oversaw clinical research.
At the F.D.A., the top tobacco regulator, Brian King, was reassigned. At the C.D.C., several leaders, including Kayla Laserson, who ran the global health center, also were reassigned to the Indian Health Service.
The health service is chronically understaffed and underfunded; the reassignment notices said it has an “untenable vacancy rate” of 30 percent. Mr. Kennedy recently lamented that it has been “treated as the redheaded stepchild at H.H.S.” and said President Trump wants him to “rectify this sad history.”
Those who received the reassignments were given until Wednesday to decide whether to accept the offer, or leave their jobs.
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