Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, introduced a serious restructuring and RIF of the company he leads.
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The Trump administration Thursday introduced a serious restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that may minimize 20,000 full-time jobs.
The cuts embody staff who’ve taken the Trump administration’s Fork within the Road provide and early retirement, plus an extra discount in power of 10,000 jobs. It will take the HHS workforce from 82,000 to 62,000, based on the HHS press launch.
The restructuring additionally features a reorganization of HHS’s many divisions to scale back them from 28 to fifteen.
“We aren’t simply lowering bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the group with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the continual illness epidemic,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated within the press launch. “This Department will do extra — much more — at a decrease price to the taxpayer.”
HHS is the umbrella company that features the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and different smaller divisions.