RFK Jr. Plans To Slash 10,000 HHS Jobs

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced his department will slash 10,000 HHS employees.

HHS announced its decision to cut jobs comes in compliance to “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative.”

HHS in a press release shared, “The restructuring will address this and serve multiple goals without impacting critical services. First, it will save taxpayers $1.8 billion per year through a reduction in workforce of about 10,000 full-time employees who are part of this most recent transformation.”

“When combined with HHS’ other efforts, including early retirement and Fork in the Road, the restructuring results in a total downsizing from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees,” added the HHS.

RFK JR: HHS TO CUT 20,000 JOBS IN MASSIVE OVERHAUL

“28 great divisions will become 15. The entire federal workforce is downsizing now, so this will be a painful period for HHS as we downsize from 82,000 full time employees to around 62,000.”

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Here’s what The Hill reported:

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday his department is planning to reduce its workforce by 10,000 people through restructuring as part of the Trump administration’s aim to cut costs.

HHS said the restructuring was part of President Trump’s executive order “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative.” While the effort will seek to cut 10,000 jobs, HHS will apparently seek to double this workforce reduction through other means.

“The restructuring will address this and serve multiple goals without impacting critical services. First, it will save taxpayers $1.8 billion per year through a reduction in workforce of about 10,000 full-time employees who are part of this most recent transformation,” the department said in a press release. “When combined with HHS’ other efforts, including early retirement and Fork in the Road, the restructuring results in a total downsizing from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees.”

“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said in a statement. “This Department will do more — a lot more — at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”

The WSJ is reporting that RFK Jr. is going to announce a cut of 10,000 jobs at HHS today.

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Per CNBC:

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 its workforce, shrinking it to 62,000 employees.

HHS is a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees vaccines and other medicines, scientific research, public health infrastructure, pandemic preparedness and food and tobacco products. The department also manages government-funded health care for millions of Americans – including seniors, disabled people and lower-income patients who rely on Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act’s markets.

The department will cut jobs at divisions responsible for offering insurance to the poorest Americans, approving new drugs, and responding to disease outbreaks, according to The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported the cuts.

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