A career employee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is confirming details about many of the Trump administration’s violations, behaviors, and practices.
A new report published by Politico highlights the days following the departure of Tom Novotny, who previously served as the Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service and Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Refugee Health. Joshua Prasad, who served as a public health adviser under Novotny, penned a letter about his Sept. 13, 2017 meeting where he claims he was “pushed to resign or be fired himself, and then swiftly marched out of the building by security.”
The timing of Prasad’s firing raised red flags. The termination is said to have gone into effect on Sept. 15, 2017 just one day before “Prasad’s protections as a career civil servant would have kicked in, which would have made it nearly impossible for the Trump administration to swiftly fire him.” Continue reading.