{"id":24822,"date":"2025-03-27T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24822"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:29:18","slug":"10000-federal-health-dept-workers-to-be-laid-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24822","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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

The layoffs, reported<\/a> earlier by The Wall Street Journal, are a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which now employs about 82,000 people. Together with previous layoffs, the move will bring the department down to about 62,000, the agency said.<\/p>\n

The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America, which Mr. Kennedy said will go by the acronym A.H.A. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do more with less,\u201d he said, even as he acknowledged it would be \u201ca painful period for H.H.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28 divisions of the health agency will be consolidated into 15 new divisions, according to a statement issued by the department. Mr. Kennedy announced the changes in a YouTube video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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

All of those agencies have campuses outside of Washington and tend to operate under their own authority, and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them. Mr. Kennedy assailed them, and other parts of the department, in his video.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don\u2019t even come to work,\u201d he claimed. \u201cH.H.S. has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 I.T. departments and dozens of procurement offices and nine H.R. departments. In many cases, they don\u2019t even talk to each other. They\u2019re mainly operating in the silos.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, are a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which now employs about 82,000 people. Together with previous layoffs, the move will bring the department down to about 62,000, the agency said.The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America, which Mr. Kennedy said will go by the acronym A.H.A. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do more with less,\u201d he said, even as he acknowledged it would be \u201ca painful period for H.H.S.\u201dThe 28 divisions of the health agency will be consolidated into 15 new divisions, according to a statement issued by the department. Mr. Kennedy announced the changes in a YouTube video.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, and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them. Mr. Kennedy assailed them, and other parts of the department, in his video.\u201cWhen I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don\u2019t even come to work,\u201d he claimed. \u201cH.H.S. has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 I.T. departments and dozens of procurement offices and nine H.R. departments. In many cases, they don\u2019t even talk to each other. They\u2019re mainly operating in the silos.\u201d<\/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-24822","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\/24822","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=24822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24824,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24822\/revisions\/24824"}],"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=24822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}