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hey everyone Ian Smith here with
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fedsmith.com I'm bringing you a quick
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update from some news from the
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Department of Health and Human Services
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that hit this week on Thursday March
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27th the agency announced that it's
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going to be laying off quite a few
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federal employees from the agency as
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part of a broader restructuring plan
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that's going on at the agency and this
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plan is part of the Trump
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administration's overall efforts to
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government in this case the agency's
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laying off about 10,000 full-time
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employees and um it's actually part of a
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broader group of layoffs if you will um
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because when combined with the fork in
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the road offer as well as uh early
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retirement HHS estimates that its
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Workforce will go from about 82,000 down
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to 62,000 full-time federal employees
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that's a reduction of about 24% so it's
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pretty significant however HHS pointed
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out also that its budget grew by 38% and
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its Staffing increased
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177% over the last four years under the
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Biden administration at the Food and
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FDA um its Workforce is going to
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decrease by approximately 3500 full-time
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employees at the centers for dis Disease
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Control and prevention its Workforce
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would be cut by about 2400 employees at
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the National Institutes of Health its
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Workforce would be cut by about 1,200
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employees in the centers for Medicare
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and Medicaid services its Workforce
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would be cut by about 300 employees HHS
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also said as part of this
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that no additional cuts are currently
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department quote will continue to look
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for other ways to streamline its
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operations and agencies these layoffs
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that HHS announced are part of a broader
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restructuring plan that the agency's
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currently working on its stated
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objective is to save taxpayers money
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reduce the size of the agency while also
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making it operate more efficiently and
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effect effectively and work better for
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Americans HHS currently comprises 28
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divisions and according to the
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announcement from the agency many of
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redundant and the plan is to consolidate
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these 28 divisions into 15 new ones and
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also cut Regional Offices in half
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they'll be shrunk from 10 down to five
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and the stated goal of this
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restructuring plan is to improve
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Americans experience with a HHS by
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making the agency more responsive and
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efficient while also ensuring that
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essential services like Medicare
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Medicaid and other health services
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remain intact that was something it
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stressed very heavily is that it's not
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cutting Medicare Medicaid
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services the agency estimates that once
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the restructuring plan's all said and
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done that it will save taxpayers about
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$1.8 billion per year and this plan that
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HHS is working on part of the Trump
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administration's broader efforts to
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reduce the size of the federal
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government and eliminate waste and blo
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the President issued an executive order
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February uh the title of which was
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implementing the president's Department
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of government efficiency Workforce
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optimization initiative and as part of
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this initiative by the Trump
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Administration the office of personnel
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management announced shortly after this
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executive order was issued that it was
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directing agencies to prepare for large
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scale riffs or reduction in force and
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that's what we're seeing with HHS we're
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seeing it at other agencies and it's all
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part of this um larger scale or or
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broader initiative by the Trump
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Administration to reduce the overall
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size of the government the
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reorganization plan going on at HHS has
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more details to it about some of the
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other specific changes that are
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happening I won't get into them in this
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video but if you'd like more information
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I've included a link in the description
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to an article I wrote that that goes
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into more detail I hope you found this
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summary about the announcements from HHS
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this week to be helpful there are a lot
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of changes taking place not just to that
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agency but in many agencies right now
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throughout the government with all of
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the restructurings and layoffs that have
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been announced I know it's a difficult
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time for a lot of you we wish you all
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the best of luck as you navigate these
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challenges fed will continue to post new
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