Department of Health and Human Services to Fire Additional 10,000 Employees, Close Agencies, and Terminate $330 million+ for DEI and Gender Research in California Alone

Almost a quarter of Department of Health and Human Services staff members are being laid off.

Associated Press: In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centers across the country… Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring Thursday. He faulted the department’s 82,000 workers for a decline in Americans’ health… The restructuring plan caps weeks of tumult at the nation’s top health department, which has been embroiled in rumors of mass firings, the revocation of $11 billion in public health funding for cities and counties, a tepid response to a measles outbreak, and controversial remarks about vaccines from its new leader (Associated Press).

This is maddening.

RFK Jr. reveals that before he stepped in, the Department of Health and Human Services was so fragmented—so dysfunctional—that its own divisions were “selling patient information to each other” while actively working against one another.

In other words, your… pic.twitter.com/cvaEPKxUyQ

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 28, 2025

BREAKING: Department of Health and Human Services terminates $330 million+ in National Institutes of Health grants for DEI and gender research in California. pic.twitter.com/mtgiy4MUDn

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 27, 2025

DC Draino: RFK just fired another 10,000 HHS employees. This is on top of 10,000 who already quit (X).

Health News
RFK Jr. Announces Mass Terminations, Major Restructuring at HHS
Approximately a quarter of Department of Health and Human Services staff members are being laid off.

By Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, March 27, 2025:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on March 27 announced major changes at HHS, including the merging of some divisions, in a bid to become more efficient.
“We are going to streamline HHS to make our agency more efficient and more effective,” Kennedy said in a video s

Kennedy said that, in addition to consolidating divisions, mass layoffs would reduce the full-time HHS workforce by about 25 percent from 82,000 workers.

Kennedy said the transition will be painful but that the department is “going to do more with less.”

The reorganization, which will take 28 divisions down to 15, is expected to save $1.8 billion per year, according to health officials.

The division that will be most affected is the Food and Drug Administration, with about 3,500 workers being fired, according to HHS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s workforce will be reduced by about 2,400 employees. Some 1,200 employees at the National Institutes of Health will no longer have jobs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, another division, will move forward with about 300 fewer workers.

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