Department of Government Efficiency

The National Health Corps’ (NHC) Community Health Fellowship places service members in nonprofits throughout nine counties in Northeast Pennsylvania.

The Trump administration’s recent cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services included billions of dollars in grants to the states. Gov. Josh Shapiro joined a multistate lawsuit against the administration, resulting in a temporary pause on the cuts. But Luzerne and Lackawanna county officials are left waiting on money that may not come.

Union representatives for government employees are scrambling to understand the possible fate of several federal offices in Northeast Pennsylvania that appeared on lists slated for possible sale or lease termination.

Morale is low at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, which is part of the country’s organic industrial base and the largest industrial employer in Northeast Pennsylvania. The AFGE Local 1647 is trying to decipher confusing and chaotic instructions from the federal government, according to the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1647.