https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/11\/trump-transforms-congressionally-mandated-health-offices-into-ghost-towns-00340176<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping layoffs at several agencies, including HHS, saying that cooperation of the legislative branch is required for large-scale reorganizations.<\/p>\n
Kennedy eliminated thousands of jobs in early April, paralyzing programs across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and particularly in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, that monitored health threats, researched cures and investigated everything from toxic fumes in fire stations to outbreaks of gonorrhea.<\/p>\n
The layoffs at NIOSH have halted the National Firefighter Cancer Registry, Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, Health Hazard Evaluation Program, Respirator Approval Program and Coal Workers\u2019 Health Surveillance Program. All are required by law, but their government websites explain they are no longer operating because of the layoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the law requires you, the executive, to do this work, you have, in a back door way, thumbed your nose at Congress by firing the people who are actually necessary to get that work done,\u201d said Max Stier, the president and CEO of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, whose mission is supporting the federal workforce. \u201cThe executive branch is supposed to execute \u2014 the name says it all. It doesn\u2019t have the right to determine where money is spent and how much money is spent. \u201d<\/p>\n
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told POLITICO that \u201ccritical initiatives under NIOSH will remain intact.\u201d”<\/p>\n
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“while the administration has pledged that \u201cessential services\u2026will remain fully intact and uninterrupted,\u201d and have repeatedly claimed that core programs will transfer to the yet-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA, interviews with staff and public notices on the CDC\u2019s website show that the programs are no longer operational.”<\/p>\n
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