The Minister of Health and the anti -lawyer for activists, Robert F. Kennedy Junior is a total of 20,000 jobs in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services-or about 24 percent of the workforce-in a comprehensive reform process, Kennedy said and save money.
Combining the workforce losses from early retirement, “a thorn on the road”, the deferred resignation deal, and 10,000 jobs that were destroyed in discounts and restructuring that were announced today, HHS will shrink from 82,000 full -time employees to 62000 under Kennedy and Trump administration. The 28 HHS divisions will be reduced to 15, while five of the ten regional offices of the administration will be closed.
“This will be a painful period,” Kennedy said in a video announcement. Social media. Kennedy claimed that HHS as a “sprawling bureaucracy”, will aim for “excessive officials.”
“I want to promise you now that we will do more with less,” he said in the video.
Kennedy and HHS said the discounts would save $ 1.8 billion every year. This is about 0.027 percent of the total federal spending, based on 6.75 trillion dollars In 2024, the government spent about 0.06 percent $ 2.8 trillion budget HHS For that year.
The reduction of its size today includes significant discounts in the food and medicine management, the centers of control and prevention control, and the National Institutes of Health.
Discounts discounts
The FDA will lose 3,500 employees, which were reported by the Wall Street Journal. About 19 percent of its employees. HHS did not provide current employee levels at the agency level or percentage discounts. The Center for Disease Control, which will absorb the administration for strategic preparation and response (ASPR), will lose 2400 employees (1400 from CDC and 1000 from ASPR). The magazine stated that about 18 percent of the total workforce. The National Health Institutes will lose 1,200 employees, or about 6 percent of their workers.