{"id":476,"date":"2025-03-28T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:42:21","slug":"trump-administration-proposing-a-silly-new-bureaucracy-former-hhs-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/trump-administration-proposing-a-silly-new-bureaucracy-former-hhs-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration ‘proposing a silly new bureaucracy’: Former HHS secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala criticized\u00a0the Trump administration’s efforts to cut back the department she once led, calling it an insult that puts Americans’ health at risk.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0op-ed<\/a>\u00a0for Stat News published Thursday, Shalala said the administration was “insulting a generation of patriotic federal workers, proposing a silly new bureaucracy, and appointing people who are anti-science and anti-government with no management or leadership experience.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s exactly\u00a0[what] you would do if you wanted to have no positive impact on the country\u2019s health, welfare, and future,” she added.<\/p>\n

Shalala, who served as the HHS secretary\u00a0under former President Clinton\u00a0from 1993-2001, called the Trump administration’s decision to cut 10,000 people from HHS “deeply misguided.”<\/p>\n

“Cutting 10,000 people from HHS, on top of the 10,000 who have already resigned, is deeply misguided. I found the civil service at HHS exemplary \u2014 thoughtful, engaged, creative, and hardworking. If HHS is to be reinvented, the best approach would be to work with the civil servants who know it best, not remove them,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Shalala went on to say that Trump administration officials don’t understand the impact of the HHS on the country’s economy.<\/p>\n

“The current administration is led by people who don\u2019t understand leadership or the extraordinary impact that HHS programs have on our economy and our future.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Trump administration\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0it was getting rid of roughly a quarter of\u00a0the department’s\u00a0staffers prompting a flurry of warnings from Democrats, former officials and policy experts over the potential consequences for the health of Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a press release,\u00a0HHS\u00a0Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0said\u00a0the department\u00a0would reorganize and\u00a0cut about 10,000 jobs<\/a> through layoffs. The department will seek to cut an additional 10,000 employees through buyouts, early retirement and the administration\u2019s \u201cFork in the Road\u201d offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Responding to the move, Sen.\u00a0Patty Murray<\/a> (D-Wash.) held a press briefing Thursday afternoon, along with Sens.\u00a0Tammy Baldwin<\/a> (D-Wis.) and\u00a0Ed Markey<\/a> (D-Mass.).<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is not just a restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services. It is a catastrophe for the health care of every American,\u201d Markey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hill reached out to the HHS for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala criticized\u00a0the Trump administration’s efforts to cut back the department she once led, calling it an insult that puts Americans’ health at risk. In an\u00a0op-ed\u00a0for Stat News published Thursday, Shalala said the administration was “insulting a generation of patriotic federal workers, proposing a silly new bureaucracy, and appointing people who are anti-science and anti-government with no management or leadership experience.” “That\u2019s exactly\u00a0[what]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}