US health department announces 10,000 job cuts in major overhaul | World News
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a major overhauling in its department across the region on Thursday, as it said it will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices.
The latest job cuts in the health department, which comes under health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and about 10,000 voluntary departures add up to a total job cut of 20,000 which effectively reduces the number of full-time employees at the department to 62,000 from 82,000, the health department said.
In an official statement, Secretary Kennedy said “We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” as quoted Reuters.
We are streamlining HHS to make our agency more efficient and more effective. We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions merging them into a new organization called the Adminration for a Healthy America or AHA. This… pic.twitter.com/BlQWUpK3u7
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) March 27, 2025
Since taking office for his second tenure in January, US President Donald Trump has been gutting agencies and shrinking the federal government workforce job cuts, voluntary departures, and shutting the department itself with the help of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting initiative.
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According to a Reuters report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will see job cuts of 2,400 people while the Food and Drug Adminration will involve cutting 3,500 full-time employees.
Adminration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, which is an independent health department (HHS) agency, will also see the departure of 1,000 employees.
Across 27 institutes of National Institute of Health (NIH), 1,200 employees will be ousted. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will cut 300 jobs.
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