The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies.
These layoffs come in addition to the approximately 10,000 employees who have left voluntarily since President Donald Trump took office.
According HHS, the department will reduce its divisions from 28 to 15 and cut its workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 employees.
“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS Secretary. “This Department will do more – a lot more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”
Written with information from CNN
