CNBC March 27, 2025
Key Points
– Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans 10,000 job cuts at his department.
– The reductions could affect teams that respond to disease outbreaks, approve drugs and help people with their insurance coverage.
– Kennedy has repeatedly criticized the department he now leads.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to slash 10,000 full-time employees across different departments, as he works to reshape the nation’s federal health agencies, the department said Thursday.
Those job cuts are in addition to about 10,000 employees who opted to leave HHS since President Donald Trump took office, through voluntary separation offers. Combined, they will lead to the federal health department shedding about a quarter of...
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