Well, thank goodness. Who needs the CDC, FDA, or NIH—when poor Elon needs a tenth summer home?
It’s not like we’ve ever faced a global pandemic, an opioid crisis, stage 4 cancer or skyrocketing rates of chronic disease.
Today, 10,000 health professionals across the Department of Health and Human Services—including frontline disease trackers, cancer researchers, food safety inspectors, and public health communicators—were laid off.
This isn’t budget cutting. This is a direct attack on the health and safety of the American people.
🩺 Trump Guts America’s Health So Elon Musk Can Get a Tax Cut
Well, thank goodness. Who needs the CDC, FDA, or NIH—when poor Elon needs a tenth summer home?
It’s not like we’ve ever faced a global pandemic, an opioid crisis, stage 4 cancer or skyrocketing rates of chronic disease.
Today, 10,000 health professionals across the Department of Health and Human Services—including frontline disease trackers, cancer researchers, food safety inspectors, and public health communicators—were laid off.
This isn’t budget cutting. This is a direct attack on the health and safety of the American people.
You read that right.
- 3,500 FDA staff who ensure our drugs and food aren’t killing us. Gone.
- 2,400 CDC employees tracking disease outbreaks? Bye.
- 1,200 NIH experts pushing life-saving research? Shown the door.
Apparently, protecting Americans from infectious disease and cancer isn’t a priority anymore. Neither is funding medical research. Or keeping public health infrastructure intact. But hey—at least we’ve got tax cuts for billionaires, right?
In an inspired twist of timing, these layoffs happened the same week NIH’s new director walked in the door, and just days after collective bargaining rights were stripped from federal employees. Can’t have civil servants with job security or opinions, after all.
Meanwhile, local health departments are bleeding staff as COVID-era funds vanish overnight. Clinical trials for pediatric brain cancer are halted. Scientists are cancelling studies, rescinding job offers, and shuttering labs. Hope? Gone with the funding. But don't worry—there's always private equity to save us from E. coli.
This isn’t budget tightening. This is sabotage.
This is ideological warfare against science, public health, and the very idea of government working for the people. We are not just losing jobs—we're losing expertise, capacity, and a generation of future scientists.
But sure, go ahead and rename it the Department of Disease, as Sen. Patty Murray suggested. At least then, the branding would be accurate.