Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a restructure is needed at HHS due to Americans "getting sicker." But are they? Here's what the ...

Mass layoffs from the Health Department started this week as Donald Trump’s administration sought to reduce the size of the federal government workforce ...

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to slash 10,000 employees in a major restructuring of the whole department, ...

The downsizing includes pushing out about 10,000 full-time employees through early retirements, deferred resignations, and ...

Kevin Hall, a nutrition and metabolism specialist, is the latest to leave the department since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has laid ...

Officials at agencies throughout the Department of Health and Human Services say they are bracing for steep layoffs, as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr ... under offers made across HHS this ...

Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of the sprawling Department ... and offices reflected the breadth of what HHS does and the role it plays in the U.S., in ...

Kennedy Jr. suggested Thursday that ... “The expenditures, the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up by 38%, the employees went up by 17%, and health care went down,” he ...

Kennedy Jr.’s ouster of a top official ... Kennedy had announced sweeping cuts to HHS last week with plans to shrink to 62,000 employees from 82,000. The secretary had announced plans to ...

Kennedy Jr. announced ... The division of HHS responsible for preparing for pandemics will be relocated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1,000 employees will be transferred ...

Kennedy Jr. plans ... off under Kennedy’s plans, which were announced Thursday morning. The planned terminations are in addition to the roughly 10,000 employees who have left the HHS through ...

Job cuts affected the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — at all levels of seniority.