The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some kept the employees whether they can temporarily return to work, as the department struggles with a backlog of grant that has been wealth for more than one billion dollars. Dog,
Many HHS officials, who were not authorized to talk to the press, said that the employees laid were asked to return to work, including some employees who managed the grant in the administration of the department for children and families, or ACF. An official said that about half of the ACF grant management employees have been placed or left under the Trump Administration.
ACF delayed grants include funds for residential services Faint migrant children, National indigenous domestic violence hotline And Young,
Funding has already funded elsewhere for other programs DepartmentIn Health Resources and Services Administration, Targethine portal With resources for providers who take care of people HIV After ending June 30, they are frozen.
Within ACF, an officer described the plans as a sprint “on the deck”. Another said that it would be “almost impossible” to process the grant in time, without cutting careful reviews, interacting and giving money on the general procedure installed to pay.
Two officials said that the department was also tilting on contractors and other employees to catch the backlog of the grant.
Several HHS officials said that they established many new bureaucracy hoops established by the Trump administration to progress to complete the grant by the end of the financial year, which requires the award by September. Several grants are required to continue the work already funded by the federal government.
Officials said that several grants are now several months behind the schedule, and have yet been formally opened for application.
To deliver timely grants, an official said that the period of general months that organizations have to apply for funding can be shrunk only for two weeks.
Another official said, “It is very difficult for programs to deposit within that short time frame. They are putting applicants in very, very difficult places.”
Notices to open the grant for applications were stopped in a new grant review process set up by the Trump Administration, for which officers across the department needed to send an email to an inbox staff by Dogi to allow opportunities to be posted.
An HHS spokesperson did not respond to the remarks request.
In June, an HHS spokesperson described the inbox as part of the department-wide “defense of spending” to “intend” to ensure that the taxpayer dollar is being used effectively, transparently, transparent and in alignment with this administration. “
Officers within the department recently announced that the need to root the notice through the new DOGE process was no longer in place. Washington Post Was reported earlier That additional review was ending.
Within ACF, several officials stated that some approval was initiated only recently to prepare for grants from the Trump administration.
A request to release only continuity, the grant funds provided to previous recipients were effectively expanded, denied by the officials of the White House.
The Trump administration has issued an array of changes in the rules controlling the grants issued by the department. Changes include a trick Announced on Thursday To reverse a policy that withdraws to the Clinton Administration, which frees many federally funded grant recipients from using the immigration status to determine eligibility for their programs.
It is not clear how or when that change will be implemented. For now, the department said that it was not formally changing which programs would actually be necessary to verify the immigration status, but said that nothing in the law does not ban the grant recipients from adding the need.
The department said, “To pending further regulation and/or guidance on the situations that require verification, all institutions that are part of the administration of public benefits of HHS should focus on the clear manifestations of the national policy described above,” the department said. In its filing Description of Change.
