‘Enough Is Enough!‘: Former FDA Head Says Trump’s Cuts Risk Americans’ Lives | EUROtoday

A former Food and Drug Administration commissioner declared Wednesday that Donald Trump is dismantling many years of medical and scientific advances and issued a dire warning concerning the president’s cuts to the federal authorities.

“The reason we are able to live long and productive lives are because of the investment — not because we’re smarter today — but because the investment we made 50, 75 years ago. And that’s being destroyed,” stated Dr. David Kessler, who served as FDA head below presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

“And it’s across the board. We have to rescind these cuts. Enough is enough.”

Kessler’s remarks to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow arrive because the president’s struggle towards “wasteful” spending — pushed by billionaire Elon Musk — reaches 10,000 federal staff on the Department of Health and Human Services as mass layoffs start at a variety of companies this week.

Among the federal staff impacted by the sweeping HHS cuts are the Centers for Disease Control’s in vitro fertilization group, these trying to stop childhood lead poisoning, staffers with Meals on Wheels and staff who administer the Head Start program.

“I think they’re endangering the lives of all Americans,” stated Kessler of the Trump administration’s cuts.

Kessler additionally served as chief science officer of President Joe Biden’s White House Covid-19 response group and warned of the general public well being catastrophe that would lie forward.

“We are less safe today because of these cuts that have happened the last several days … I wonder whether the president really even knows the extent of what has been done,” he stated.

He went on to explain the cuts as “devastating,” “haphazard,” “thoughtless” and “chaotic,” including that point is operating out to undo the harm.

“The president has to be informed of what the extent of these cuts are. We have maybe a week before this becomes beyond fixable,” he stated.