The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it will cut 10,000 full-time positions across key agencies including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. The downsizing, part of a broader restructuring effort led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will reduce the department’s workforce by nearly 25%, from 82,000 to 62,000 employees.
HHS said the move aims to streamline operations and reduce costs within the $2 trillion agency, which oversees nearly a quarter of the federal budget. It will also consolidate 28 divisions into 15 and shrink HHS’s regional offices from 10 to five. A new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) will be created to promote Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative.
In a post on X, Kennedy said, “We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions… to Make America Healthy Again.”
The layoffs follow the voluntary departure of another 10,000 employees since President Trump’s second term began, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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