{"id":10410,"date":"2025-03-28T20:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:20:29","slug":"rfk-jr-defends-hhs-job-cuts-were-not-cutting-front-line-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=10410","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. defends HHS job cuts: \u2018We\u2019re not cutting front-line workers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-6.jpg 762w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-6-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the administration\u2019s decision to cut 10,000 jobs at the department on Thursday, confirming that essential employees would remain part of the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not cutting front line workers, we\u2019re cutting administrators, and we\u2019re consolidating the agency to make it more efficient,\u201d Kennedy said during a Thursday evening appearance on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cCUOMO.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the new cuts, HHS is looking to remove an additional 10,000 through severance packages, buyouts and early retirements. Kennedy, in a video shared to social platform X, acknowledged \u201cthis will be a painful period for HHS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move would cut a fourth of the department\u2019s workforce, resembling similar reduction in forces at the Department of Education, Department of Veteran Affairs and other agencies in line with President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE) efforts to cut down on \u201cwasteful\u201d spending and overhaul the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have over 100 comms departments. You have 40 procurement departments. We have dozens of IT departments, dozens of HR departments, none of them talk to each other,\u201d Kennedy told host Chris Cuomo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd what we\u2019re trying to do now is to streamline the agency, to eliminate the redundancies and to focus the mission so that everybody who is at HHS is going to wake up every morning and say, \u2018What am I going to do today to Make America Healthy Again,\u2019 and we\u2019re going to make it easier for those who are not cutting scientists,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crockett digs in amid backlash over Abbott insult<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have objected to Kennedy\u2019s leadership of the department, citing the former independent presidential candidates\u2019 lack of previous experience in the medical field and anti-vaccine rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up for the Morning Report<br>The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email address<br>By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use, have reviewed the Privacy Policy, and to receive personalized offers and communications via email, on-site notifications, and targeted advertising using my email address from The Hill, Nexstar Media Inc., and its affiliates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she is concerned about the job cuts and their effect on public health amid funding deductions for research grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m worried on a lot of fronts,\u201d Sebelius said during The Hill\u2019s \u201cHealth Next Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe kinds of cuts that were just announced are devastating and will set science back and set research back,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. 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