Health and Human Services to lay off 10,000 workers, close agencies in major restructuring

Image source: United States Department of Health and Human Services via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Amanda Seitz, Asociated Press. PBS News Hour – March 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 […]

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