I've worked with many groups under the HHS umbrella and the day-to-day career staff are so important to US (and international) public health! You know how effective they were when you can see how everything has gone to shit now that these agencies are gutted and given very ... questionable mandates.
Alt CDC (they/them)1/6 Imagine your company announced that everyone hired in the last year was fired on Friday. Then, when the union objected, management said: “These aren't layoffs. We just individually decided thousands of people weren't working out.” That is essentially what an arbitrator found happened at HHS.