Some agencies within HHS are believed to have lost nearly one-fifth of their workforce, which could impede their basic ...

The uncertainty has dangled over the more than 80,000 HHS employees since Thursday, when the department first announced it was planning to shed around 25% of its workforce and half of those ...

Many HHS department heads and employees were unaware of plans to fire some 10,000 employees until they were publicly announced Thursday, sources said. Just before 9 a.m. Thursday in Washington ...

Meanwhile, the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents HHS workers in several agencies ... which creates some uncertainty as to whether a court would find the HHS’ actions illegal.

Scores of federal workers lined up outside their offices on April Fools’ Day to see if their badges worked. If it didn’t, it ...

The Trump administration says the merging and downsizing of some Health and Human Services agencies is aimed at realigning them toward the “core mission” of ending chronic disease. But some HHS ...

She also said the timing of the announcement was not lost on HHS employees. "On April Fools ... It causes a feeling of instability and uncertainty about what this could mean for the stability ...

Multiple HHS employees told us on Thursday morning that ... communication was “part of why we have been mired in such uncertainty and chaos.” “We often learn [about changes] from outside ...

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