Robert F. Kennedy Junior from plans to reduce the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, and reduce nearly a quarter of the workforce in a significant restructuring that unites many departments.
According to the Ministry of Health, the discounts will provide $ 1.8 billion annually-in addition to reducing their previous size-reducing the number of employees from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees.
Under the restructuring plan, the number of sections of the Ministry of Health will decrease from 28 departments to 15 – including a new administration of America’s health or AHA. The number of regional offices will decrease from 10 to five.
“We are not only lowering the bureaucratic extension,” the Minister of Health said in a statement. “We guide the institution with its basic mission and new priorities in contrast to the chronic disease epidemic. This section will do – much more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”
Many in the national and international health community were depicting themselves for a dramatic change since Kennedy, an opponent of some vaccines, and defending the safety of the strongest food, was radically reform.
The primary goal of Kennedy’s discounts is the food and medicine department, which ensures the safety and effectiveness of foods, medicines, medical devices, tobacco and other organized products. It will cut its workforce by 3,500 full -time employees, according to the Ministry of Health Fact paper.
It will also reduce and prevention control centers, which is a 9 billion dollar agency that prevents chronic diseases, fighting outbreaks of infectious diseases and providing vaccine recommendations, also 2,400 employees. National Institutes of Health, the initial federal government agency to conduct and support medical research, reduce 1,200 employees.
In an address posted on the social media platform X, Kennedy drew a dark dark image of the US Department of Health, noting that with the increase in its budget and employees, all these money failed to improve the health of Americans.
“In fact, the rate of chronic diseases and cancer has increased significantly as our department grows,” he said. “Our lives have decreased. So Americans now live shorter than Europeans.
Kennedy described his administration as “inaccurate” and “sprawling bureaucracy” that witnessed cancer rates and increased chronic diseases with an increase in their budget.
“When I arrived, I found that more than half of our employees did not come to work,” Kennedy said. “HHS has more than 100 telecommunications offices, more than 40 information technology departments, dozens of purchasing offices and nine departments in HR. In many cases, they don’t even speak to each other. They are working mainly in their silos.”
During the Biden Administration, Kennedy said that the budget of the Ministry of Health has increased by 38 % with employees increasing by 17 %.
“But all this money failed to improve the health of Americans,” he said.
Kennedy admitted that his reform in the administration would be a “painful period” for the agency. But he said he wanted all the employees to gather together “behind a simple and bold task.”
“I want every HHS employee to wake up every morning asking themselves,” What can I do to restore American health today? “I want to enable everyone in the HHS family to feel the goal, pride, and a personal agency and responsibility for this greatest goal.