Hill March 28, 2025
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the administration’s decision to cut 10,000 jobs at the department on Thursday, confirming that essential employees would remain part of the staff.
“We’re not cutting front line workers, we’re cutting administrators, and we’re consolidating the agency to make it more efficient,” Kennedy said during a Thursday evening appearance on NewsNation’s “CUOMO.”
In addition to the new cuts, HHS is looking to remove an additional 10,000 through severance packages, buyouts and early retirements. Kennedy, in a video shared to social platform X, acknowledged “this will be a painful period for HHS.”
The move would cut a fourth of the department’s workforce, resembling similar reduction in forces at the Department of...
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