03/27/2025

U.S. Health Department Slashing 10,000 Workers under RFK, Jr.

FDA, CDC and NIH face significant staff reductions

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices, it said on Thursday, a major overhaul of the department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The latest job cuts, and about 10,000 recent voluntary departures, will reduce the number of full-time employees at the department to 62,000 from 82,000, the department said.

"We aren't just reducing bureaucratic sprawl," Kennedy noted in a department statement. "We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic."

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