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The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced plans to cut 10,000 employees amid an executive order from President Donald Trump to downsize federal agencies.
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Health and Human Services Department to cut 10,000 workers
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced plans to cut 10,000 employees amid an executive order from President Donald Trump to downsize federal agencies.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ‘bureaucracies’ such as the HHS became ‘wasteful and inefficient.’
Department of Health and Human Services will cut 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will eliminate 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan, it announced Thursday.
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Editorial: Job cuts, anti-vax bent risking lives
Announcements of draconian cuts to the federal workforce, accompanied by the elimination of entire federal agencies, offices and programs, are being issued so repeatedly from the Trump administration that they threaten to become “routine” for citizens who don’t feel personally affected.
'The kind of carelessness that gets people killed': Patty Murray decries RFK Jr.'s cuts at Health and Human Services Department
Wash., convened former leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday to warn about the impact of the Trump administration's newly announced cuts to the agency's staff. A day earlier,
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Federal COVID funding cuts send North Texas health departments scrambling for solutions
Public health departments relied on COVID funding to expand testing, lab and vaccination capabilities. Local health leaders say the federal government's clawback of $11.4 billion will undermine that growth.
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Immigrant children at risk as Trump administration halts funding for legal services, North Bay providers say
Federal funding for legal services for children who came to the United States without a parent or guardian has been halted, meaning many could face deportation proceedings alone.
HHS axes more than $300M in gender, DEI-related health grants to California alone
Canceled grants included one for adapting an "inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys" and "Buddhism and HIV Stigma in Thailand."
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Houston-area immigration nonprofit sues federal agencies over legal services for unaccompanied children
The Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project (GHIRP) is one of several nonprofits that filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Office of Refugee Resettlement and the U.
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Senator Murray, former agency heads criticize HHS layoffs: 'May as well be renaming it the Department of Disease'
Democratic Senator Patty Murray is pushing back on the Trump administration's plans to push out 20,000 workers from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Fort Bend County health officials report measles case associated with international travel
The case involves a woman between the ages of 50-60, according to the Fort Bend Health and Human Services department, which said the case is associated with recent international travel and not the outbreak in West Texas,
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed: Cuts to HHS will jeopardize public health, Medicaid and Medicare
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed on Thursday slammed a plan by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lay off thousands of agency employees as short-sighted and jeopardizing public health.
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