HHS RIF

[Anonymous]

When will it be? When do the different branches announce theirs (CDC, NIH, FDA)? VA already started I thought.

[Anonymous]

RFK Jr. may have dropped a hint at the cabinet meeting about the centralization of IT, HR, and procurement.

[Anonymous]

I sure wish we knew the timing, but I guess like the RIFs in other agencies, we won’t know until they’re happening.

RFK Jr yesterday:

“We've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS. The expenditures, and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up by 38%, the employees went up by 17%, and healthcare went down. We have 40 comms departments. We have 40 procurement departments. We have 40 IT departments, and we have 40 procurement HR, none of them talking to each other. We are, with Elon's help, eliminating the redundancies. We are streamlining our department."

Also, “We're gonna get the money to the scientists and to the patients rather than to the administrators and to the bureaucrats.”

[Anonymous]

I am not aware that VA has started RIFs yet.

[Anonymous]

That does not bode well for my spouse who works in IT for NIH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure wish we knew the timing, but I guess like the RIFs in other agencies, we won’t know until they’re happening.

RFK Jr yesterday:

“We've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS. The expenditures, and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up by 38%, the employees went up by 17%, and healthcare went down. We have 40 comms departments. We have 40 procurement departments. We have 40 IT departments, and we have 40 procurement HR, none of them talking to each other. We are, with Elon's help, eliminating the redundancies. We are streamlining our department."

Also, “We're gonna get the money to the scientists and to the patients rather than to the administrators and to the bureaucrats.”

Can anyone in this administration speak more than five seconds without spewing disinfo? Even if Biden grew the Department, he did not create “40 IT departments.” Those all existed under Trump I, if there are even 40 at all. If it’s so inefficient, why didn’t Trump use his previous four years to fix it? It literally never even came up when he was in charge.

[Anonymous]

In addition to the factual inaccuracies (aka lies), it also shows that they still do not understand or appreciate why the federal government must operate differently from a for profit corporation. Sometimes separation of functions (and thus "redundancies" thought it is not actually duplication) is essential to avoid the corrupt concentration of power, to protect information that needs to be siloed, etc.

[Anonymous]

NIH is working on centralization plans. They’re also waiting to see how many will end up taking VERA/VSIP so expect no clarity for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NIH is working on centralization plans. They’re also waiting to see how many will end up taking VERA/VSIP so expect no clarity for a while.

VERA/VSIP applications were due 3/14 so they should have some numbers by now.

[Anonymous]

When they say centralization, do they mean consolidating everything under HHS or each OpDiv would consolidate these departments?

[Anonymous]

A thread on Reddit reports 1583 applied for VERA/VSIP at NIH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A thread on Reddit reports 1583 applied for VERA/VSIP at NIH.

I wonder how many will actually take it. I expressed interest for VSIP (I’m retirement-eligible but have been hoping to go to 62 for the FERS bonus) but only as an option if I learned I was being RIFed. With Monday’s deadline to actually put in separation paperwork, I’m sure I won’t know by then and will pass on it.

[Anonymous]

CDC appears to have started

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CDC appears to have started

What is happening at CDC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CDC appears to have started

What is happening at CDC?

RIFs