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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Hawkinson

RFK Jr is axing 10,000 employees at Health Department in dramatic restructuring

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is directing his Department of Health and Human Services to ax 10,000 employees across several agencies as part of the White House’s “reduction in force” plan to downsize the federal government.

The department oversees more than a dozen agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.

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