Second wave: Alaska or dismissal – Minister of Health fires thousands

Long snakes before the US Health Ministry: Many waiting do not know whether they have been fired or have a job. The government of President Donald Trump has made serious with the announced large staff loss in the ministry. A total of 10,000 employees are released – in addition to 10,000 who have already been released or have received severance payments.

Many would have received emails at 5 a.m., others only learned it after they had hired one of the snakes in front of the ministry buildings and no longer worked their access tickets, the “Washington Post” reported.

According to the “New York Times” and the “Washington Post”, the released include leading scientists, managers of the health authority of the CDC and the head of the regulatory authority for tobacco, which wanted to restrict consumption from e-cigarettes. He was offered a job in Alaska.

Others would also have been offered positions in distant locations instead of discharge. Whole departments that deal with chronic diseases and environmental problems have been deleted.

Overall, the number of employees is to be reduced from 82,000 to 62,000. There are currently numerous “redundant units”, Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced. The deletions were developed together with the savings committee of the Tech billionaire Elon Musks, it said.