John Barbus, director of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, said he is integrating his office's work into the agency's push to counter reforms President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to make at the Department of Health and Human Services. [emphasis, links added]
Balbus' action plan calls for senior administrative services employees, who are hardest to fire, to create and disseminate global warming “training modules” to all employees to increase “climate literacy.”
The goal is that even if Trump eliminates the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, his training modules will remain in place.
“Health systems are recognizing that this is a business issue, this is a financial risk issue, this is a threat to the mission,” John Barbus told PoliticoPro on Monday.
PoliticoPro reports Agency worries about Trump's vow to purge administrative state:
The head of the Office of Climate Change created by President Joe Biden at the Department of Health and Human Services hopes its work can continue in a decentralized form as President-elect Donald Trump's second term approaches.
Trump is expected to close the three-year-old U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, which has a small staff and focuses on communicating climate-driven risks to health care operations and public health. The office is staffed by personnel from other federal agencies.
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However, Trump poses a threat to many of the initiatives touted by Barbus's office because they rely on the Inflation Reduction Act, which Trump has vowed to overturn. Balbus said Biden's climate law provides critical funding to health care and hospital systems to improve their resilience to the impacts of climate change, particularly through direct payments supported by Treasury tax credits.
The term “administrative state” describes the phenomenon in which unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including national security agencies, exercise the power to set and enforce their own rules.
The administrative state used its rule-making capacity to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government that was not constituted by the Constitution.
Trump signed an executive order (EO) before leaving office in 2021 to reclassify federal government employees to Schedule F, which will allow the president to increase accountability and job performance within the bureaucracy.
“Some people are protected, but they shouldn't be protected,” Trump said of Schedule F in April.
President Biden rescinded the order in 2021, but with Trump's victory, he can reimpose the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats who run the federal government.
“This would effectively upend the modern civil service and send shockwaves throughout the bureaucracy,” Axios previously concluded on the potential impact of the executive order.
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