It's A Bloodbath (FDA) -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/its-a-bloodbath/

The former head of the FDA:

CNN reports:

A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work.

It was not immediately clear how many employees had received notice Tuesday morning. The US Department of Health and Human Services has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week that 10,000 full-time employees would be cut on top of thousands who had already left and probationary employees currently on leave. He said the changes would make fighting chronic disease the priority and reduce “bureaucratic sprawl.” Kennedy promised that the department would do more with less.

After weeks of worry from agency staffers, job cuts — known as a reduction in force, or RIF — were sweeping across offices at multiple agencies, hitting leadership, longtime staffers, scientists, administrators and communications staff.

“It’s a bloodbath,” one US Food and Drug Administration employee said.

The have given some people living in the DC area the opportunity to take jobs at the bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska, so that’s nice.

Bobby Jr is as bad as Musk at this point and the ramifications may be even more serious.He is a brainworm addled weirdo who truly believes that modern medicine must be destroyed and we should all “b build immunity” by getting deadly illnesses. If our immune systems aren’t up to the task, well, that’s just how it goes.

I don’t think you can overestimate the damage this monster is doing to our country and the world. It is monumental.

[Irish_Dem]

1. There is no plan to put it back together.

The billionaires don't want to pay for sick people.

[underpants]

2. Offered them jobs in Alaska?

Jesus what assholes.