{"id":24814,"date":"2025-03-27T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24814"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:23:46","slug":"10000-federal-health-dept-workers-to-be-laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24814","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The layoffs, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/rfk-jr-job-cuts-health-human-services-bdec28b0?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> earlier by The Wall Street Journal, amount to a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which now employs about 80,000 people. The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America \u2014 which will go by the acronym A.H.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 28 divisions of the health agency will be consolidated into 15 new divisions, according to a statement issued by the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kennedy\u2019s department touches the lives of every American. Through its various agencies \u2014 including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health \u2014 it regulates drugs, monitors food safety, tracks infectious disease and conducts biomedical research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All of those agencies have campuses outside of Washington and tend to operate under their own authority \u2014 and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The layoffs, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, amount to a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which now employs about 80,000 people. The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America \u2014 which will go by the acronym A.H.A.The 28 divisions of the health agency will be consolidated into 15 new divisions, according to a statement issued by the department.Mr. Kennedy\u2019s department touches the lives of every American. Through its various agencies \u2014 including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health \u2014 it regulates drugs, monitors food safety, tracks infectious disease and conducts biomedical research.All of those agencies have campuses outside of Washington and tend to operate under their own authority \u2014 and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24816,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24817,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24814\/revisions\/24817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}