Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, were informed of an immediate and indefinite suspension of all of their travel.
Staff were informed this week of the freeze, which includes both future engagements, as well as for employees who had accepted speaking engagements before Trump’s inauguration. Any previously approved travel must now be canceled.
“Travel is only authorized for the return of those individuals who have already departed on official travel. However, this exception is only for the traveler to the original point of departure,” Vincent Fusaro, senior travel official at HHS, wrote to staff on Tuesday in a memo obtained by Devex.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
