RFK Jr. Set to Take an Axe to His Own Department: Offices Shuttered, Thousands of Jobs Cut

The Department of Health and Human Services is cutting about 10,000 jobs.
“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,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, according to a news release on the HHS website. “This Department will do more — a lot more — at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”
“Over time, bureaucracies like HHS become wasteful and inefficient even when most of their staff are dedicated and competent civil servants,” he said.

“This overhaul will be a win-win for taxpayers and for those that HHS serves. That’s the entire American public, because our goal is to Make America Healthy Again.”
The release said these latest cuts that will realign 28 divisions into 15 divisions and …