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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

RFK Jr is ‘checked out’ and scrolls his phone despite global health emergencies, workers say

The Department of Health and Human Services is in a state of crisis — down thousands of employees, facing health emergencies such as Ebola and the resurgence of measles, lacking confirmed leaders for the CDC and Surgeon General’s office — but you wouldn’t know it if you followed the man in charge.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly rarely visits the department’s Washington headquarters, insiders told The New York Times.

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