RFK Jr says 20% of Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes
by Oliver Milman from World news | The Guardian on (#6WD7D)
Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid Trump administration's push to slash federal workforce
Around a fifth of the 10,000 jobs cut from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were done in error and will need to be corrected, the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has admitted.
Mass layoffs from the health department began this week amid a push by Donald Trump's administration to shrink the size of the federal government workforce. Union representatives were told around 10,000 people were to lose their jobs ahead of further reductions that could see the department's 82,000-strong workforce slashed by nearly a quarter.
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