It seems like not a day has gone by since January 20th that we haven’t woken up to news of a Trump Cabinet officer ordering deep cuts in their department or nuking massive amounts of fraud, waste and abuse uncovered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
On Thursday, it was HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s turn, and he has some major cuts of his own:
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning to dismiss 10,000 employees as part of a massive restructuring effort, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday, in a push to consolidate more agency functions under Kennedy’s purview.
In total, HHS will reduce staff from the current 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000. The agency will seek to cut 10,000 jobs through layoffs, while the rest will come through buyouts, early retirement and the…
