RFK Jr. Announces Mass Terminations at HHS, Major Restructuring

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on March 27 announced major changes at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the merging of some divisions, in a bid to become more efficient. “We are going to streamline HHS to make our agency more efficient and more effective,” Kennedy said in a video statement. Kennedy said 28 HHS divisions will become 15 as some are merged and that the full-time HHS workforce will be reduced by about 25 percent from 82,000 workers. Kennedy said that the transition will be painful but that “we are going to do more with less.” This is a developing story that will be updated. ...