Greenbeard
Gold Member
Efficiency and effectiveness would be great! But one would assume that would mean the taxpayers either get more for their tax dollar, or at least the same level of service for less money.
Instead we're spending more this year than in previous years and getting drastically less for our dollar.
Fewer food and drug inspections.
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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Mass Layoffs Hit Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food
The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
F.D.A. Firings Decimated Teams Reviewing A.I. and Food Safety
Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
Less help in addressing lead poisoning of kids.
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Less help with infectious disease outbreaks.
CDC scraps plan to help Texas schools curb measles over layoffs, employee says
Some employees working on the CDC's measles response were warned they could face layoffs.
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CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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Less biomedical research.
NIH is the largest funder of cancer research. Here's how Trump administration cuts could impact patients.
The Trump administration's cuts to the National Institutes of Health has some worried about stalls in research and medicine.
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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
Slower drug development.
(WSJ) Drug Development Is Slowing Down After Cuts at the FDA
Worse service for Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries.
(WSJ) Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE
Trump Administration and DOGE Eliminate Staff Who Help Older Adults and People With Disabilities - Medicare Rights Center
As we highlighted last week, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—the newly installed head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—have fired thousands of people across many agencies and announced plans for sweeping organizational...
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‘Just a Mess’: Staff Cuts, Rushed Changes and Anxiety at Social Security
President Trump promised not to touch Social Security, but as Elon Musk’s team trims staff and plans cuts to phone services, the system is groaning under the pressure.
Fewer services for veterans.
She helped veterans in crisis. DOGE cuts eliminated her job.
An office manager at a VA center in Wyoming, where the veteran suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average, was fired last month despite a glowing job review.
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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.
Less data for weather forecasting.
Weather Service Prepares for ‘Degraded Operations’ Amid Trump Cuts
An internal document describes how severe shortages of meteorologists and other staff members could affect forecasts and other operations.
The government has become more expensive, less efficient, and significantly less effective--all in just a few months!
