May 2017: Nearly 700 vacancies at CDC because of Trump administration's hiring freeze

[mfcorey1]

Nearly 700 positions are vacant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of a continuing freeze on hiring that officials and researchers say affects programs supporting local and state public health emergency readiness, infectious disease control and chronic disease prevention.

The same restriction remains in place throughout the Health and Human Services Department despite the lifting of a government-wide hiring freeze last month. At the National Institutes of Health, staff say clinical work, patient care and recruitment are suffering.

Like HHS, the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have maintained the freeze as a way of reducing their workforces and reshaping organizational structures after a directive last month from the Office of Management and Budget that said all federal agencies must submit a plan by June 30 to shrink their civilian workforces. HHS, State and EPA also face significant cuts in the Trump administration’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The administration, which unveiled a “skinny budget” for fiscal 2018 in March, is scheduled to release its full budget next week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/19/nearly-700-vacancies-at-cdc-because-of-trump-administration-hiring-freeze/

[keithbvadu2]

1. "skinny budget" became huge debt.

“skinny budget” became huge debt.

[malaise]

2. Make government the size of a bathtub

Ah well

[Botany]

3. Only one person is responsible for this screw up

Barack Obama

[procon]

4. Shortsighted morons!

These a critical public health services, R&D, cutting edge science, medicine, domestic and foreign policies to cope with crisis events, and Trump doesn't see past the dollar signs.

So what the he'll is Trump doing with all this money he's "saving" by putting the country at risk? Does he have a slush fund, is he diverting money into his vanity wall folly?

[llmart]

5. Shrinking our departments one by one...

so the money can be funneled into Jarvanka's and the rest of the Trump grifters' pockets.

Oh, and his of course. There'll be more grifting as they see the likelihood of the orange one's second term slip away.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Relax. Stable Genuis now making decisions for all 700 of them

Der Healthcare Fuehrer!

Herr Oberst, get me ze needle!

[fescuerescue]

7. All that money is being diverted to the wall

By the time Trump is done. we won't have a government. we will have a wall

[FM123]

8. We keep saying this but it is so true....

This president is dangerous in every single sense of the word.