cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36033796

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    23 hours ago

    9% of the remaining staff.
    Another 4,000 government employees were fired across other vital programs.

    We are still leas than a year into this 4 years presidency.

    There isnt just gonna be a fixing this. The US is going to have to take decades to rebuild itself from scratch whenever this fascist agenda ends.

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      4 years presidency.

      So that’s not inherently guaranteed. The constitution can be amended - hell, term limits themselves come from an amendment, not the original text. I believe there’s at least one supreme court justice who doesn’t even believe in amendments - if it wasn’t in the original text of the constitution, it doesn’t count.

      Luckily POTUS himself can’t legally suspend or delay elections. But I’m pretty sure a sympathetic congress can.