Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Companies, 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. Division of Well being and Human Companies that can lower 20,000 full-time jobs.
The cuts embody workers who’ve taken the Trump administration’s Fork within the Street provide and early retirement, plus an extra discount in pressure of 10,000 jobs. It is going to take the HHS workforce from 82,000 to 62,000, in response to the HHS press release.
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’re realigning the group with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the persistent illness epidemic,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated within the press launch. “This Division will do extra — much more — at a decrease price to the taxpayer.”
HHS is the umbrella company that features the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies, the Meals and Drug Administration, the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and different smaller divisions.
