pharmaphorum March 27, 2025
New US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he intends to save $1.8 billion per year, thanks to another wave of job cuts at the department and agencies it oversees.
The “dramatic restructuring” will see 10,000 full-time employees lose their jobs and – combined with other efforts including an early retirement scheme, the ‘Fork in the Road’ scheme of deferred resignation, and the wholesale firing of probationary workers – the net result is that HHS’ headcount will be reduced by 20,000 to 62,000.
Also included in the new plan is the dismantling of “redundant units” among HHS’ 28 divisions, which will be winnowed down to 15 while a new Administration for a Healthy America...
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