"Despite troubling headlines about disease outbreaks and pushback from the medical community, Trump and his newly confirmed health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have moved quickly since Friday to terminate thousands of highly trained employees at the CDC and other Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies tasked with protecting public health."

~ Mike Ludwig

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #PublicHealth
/8

https://truthout.org/articles/bird-flu-looms-as-trumps-mass-firings-unleash-chaos-at-public-health-agencies/

"While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for their agency — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to nearly $40 million, ProPublica found in a review of Office of Management and Budget records."

~ Avi Asher-Schapiro, Andy Kroll, Christopher Bing

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/9

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency

"It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020."

~ Jesse Rothstein

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/11

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/is-the-next-trump-recession-about