Doge places the entire staff of homelessness agency on leave
Allegedly the move took place on April 15, where all 13 USich employees were informed by the acting director that they are immediately placed with effect from administrative leave. Bloomberg mentioned three people who are familiar with the case and the office was also included in a further Whittling of the federal workforce in a executive order Signed by President Donald Trump on March 14.
That order also included the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
‘The irony here is that [USICH] was designed for the efficiency of the government, “said Jeff Olivet, executive director of the council under President Joe Biden, in an interview with NPR.”[Congress established USICH in 1987] To ensure that the federal response to homelessness is coordinated, it is efficient and reduces duplication between federal agencies. “
Olivet now serves as a senior advisor on health and homelessness for the Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health. In a Bloomberg interview he called the decision ‘devastating’ and in this way described it ‘not only for the fine civil servants who work at Usich and have devoted their lives to the termination of homelessness, but also for the federal homeless policy as a whole, “he said.
The current acting director of Usich is Kenneth Jackson, of which Bloomberg says it is an official with Doge who works under Musk. His actions “seem to be the legal guidelines to violate the agency,” said Bloomberg in his report.
This is because the federal law that it has established in the first place is necessary to develop a strategic homelessness plan and to deliver a report on the basis of this on an annual basis Congress.
“It includes the secretaries and directors of 19 different federal agencies, including the departments of Health and human services” Housing and urban development And Veteran cases“Said the report. “The leaders of those agencies gathered four times a year to coordinate government’s work on homelessness.”
Most, if not all, staff members who have placed on leave plan to accept the renewed deferred dismissal offer from the government from the Personnel Management Office (Opm), the report added.
