Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested Thursday that up to 20% of recent workforce cuts to his department were mistakes and that affected employees would “have to be reinstated.”
His comments come after the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday plans to lay off approximately 10,000 employees in human resources, procurement, finance, and information technology, bringing the total number of cuts to the department to about a quarter of its staff.
Two days later, Kennedy told reporters in Virginia that many of those workers should not have been cut. He has been working with the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce HHS redundancies, particularly in the administrative sphere, but research and “studies” personnel and programs had been mistakenly looped
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