A Memo disclosed says that veterans are licking more than 76,000
The leadership of veterans was informed that mass layoffs were in the process of making a memo disclosed.
Washington – The Department of Veterans Combators launched a 90 -day life buoy to temporary researchers whose medical studies have been plunged into uncertainty by radical layoffs of the Trump administration and Gel hiringBut their fate remains uncertain.
President Donald TrumpThe freeze -scale freeze has threatened to eliminate hundreds of studies and clinical trials that are carried out by temporary ENA appointments – scientific partnerships that have sown historical medical inventions of the invention of the heart stimulator to the first cat scan.
But this week, the GA has quietly fell back, extending certain terms of research which were to expire in the next three months of 90 days, confirmed the VA in USA Today on Wednesday.
Scientists say that the fate of major studies and trials funded by the VOE development and research office is still in the air.
“You never know when we are going to be struck by wild news which, you know, could be completely devastating,” a temporary meeting told USA Today told USA TODAY. They asked to remain anonymous to protect their study, which implies the use of opioids among veterans.
The loss of a member of his team who was abandoned by the VA in the wave of dismissals and cancellations of appointments “delays our progress on the project more,” they said.
The VA has not publicly announced the 90 -day extension. Although a temporary stay, the researchers said that there were still unanswered questions-what happens at the end of the extension? And is the staff already dropped by the agency disappeared for good?
The VA did not answer these questions.
“This extension will guarantee the continuity of all research efforts while the ministry performs a complete assessment of current research initiatives to assess their impact on health care of veterans,” said spokesman Peter Kasperowicz in a statement.
The researcher for opioids said he was not clear what the new extension means for their study. The study had already lost a member of the team to Trump layoffs. And because their own appointment ends with more than 90 days and is not covered by the extension of the VA, “there is no clear solution for me either.”
In dismissing administrative workers who may have seemed insensitive to medical research and care, the Trump administration deleted the team members who were responsible for registration with study subjects and monitor patients. Trump’s assistant dismissals Elon Musk DOGE has disrupted the studies supposed to follow patients over time, have said researchers and VA experts.
Will plan to reduce 76,000 jobs
In the middle of the Trump administration Discounts used in federal agenciesTHE VA has already dismissed 2,400 employees.
And it’s not over. According to a memo circulated among agency chiefs and previously reported by USA TodayThe VA plans to fire at least 76,000 more workers, who legislators and defenders Fear could devastate the Already short in the short term agency.
Va exempt from 300,000 jobs hiring gel, including direct caregivers, and said The positions and contracts “critical to the mission” have not been destroyed in layoffs.
But chaos has already had an impact on double research meetings, a key system for medical research, arousing the fear of scientists of serious ramifications throughout the line – and not only for veterans.
For decades, the VA has exploited doctors, professors and researchers from external institutions to conduct temporary studies and clinical trials through two appointments, a “profitable” means for access to experts on a limited basis, according to Elizabeth Stout of the National Association of Veterans’ Research and Education Foundation.
Congress Designated $ 984 million for more than 7,270 research projects will be active last year. More than 3,680 main researchers on 102 research sites work on programs. Many of these scientists are on an appointment “without compensation”, which means that the VA has access to their work without paying it – even if they are still technically federal employees.
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Even these staff members were taken in the freezing of hires, which also included federal appointments. It is not clear if the extension of the VA will restore the researchers dismissed or disrupted studies.
Rashi Romanoff, chief executive officer of Navref, said that the “destiny” of the researchers already released was uncertain. “Throughout VA’s research community, there has been a lot of concerns about the ability to maintain critical research initiatives for veterans,” she said.
‘No soft to be picked up’
During its history of a century, the funding of the RAE search produced a long line of first scientists, from the cardiac stimulator to the CAT scanner. The researchers are behind the key medical studies and technologies who have an impact on veterans, but also the wider audienceIncluding prostheses, SSPT and cancer.
“What is necessary is the research on the reasons why the military service increases the risk” of SLA, “said Kuldip Dave, principal vice-president of research to the ALS association. ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a serious nervous system that we are the veterans 1.5 times more likely to contract that the general population. Why is unknown.
“Veterans could be a smaller population to study, but what we find there could have an impact on all patients,” he said.
Over 60% of researchers are also clinicians. Dave said that this gives them the unique ability to apply what they teach their patients in the laboratory.
“This is the only organization whose only objective is to do research on the needs of veterans,” he said.
“It’s not like” oh, if you cut staff, the slack will be picked up by someone else. “There is no relaxation to pick up.”