The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The layoffs, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, amount to a drastic reduction in personnel for the health department, which now employs about 80,000 people. The restructuring will include creating a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America — which will go by the acronym A.H.A.
The 28 divisions of the health agency will be consolidated into 15 new divisions, according to a statement issued by the department.
Mr. Kennedy’s department touches the lives of every American. Through its various agencies — including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health — it regulates drugs, monitors food safety, tracks infectious disease and conducts biomedical research.
All of those agencies have campuses outside of Washington and tend to operate under their own authority — and Mr. Kennedy has been at odds with all of them.
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