The federal health department sidestepped normal procedures as it laid off 10,000 employees, according to sources. One union ...

Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...

Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people would lose ...

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

The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a restructure is needed at HHS due to Americans "getting sicker." But are they? Here's what the ...

Shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, as the breadth of the layoffs was still sinking in, the HHS account on X posted a photo of Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya with ...

The impact of HHS layoffs in 2025 is beyond the D.C. circle. The US health agencies mass layoffs and badge deactivation ...

"There's no way to have these RIFs and not impact the programs and the people who rely on them." Last week, the announcement of the coming layoffs at HHS said that ACL's responsibilities would go to ...

An attached memo described the layoffs as part of the HHS’ efforts to improve efficiency. “This RIF is necessary to reshape the workforce of HHS,” the memo said. Unionized HHS employees also ...

HHS said in a news release that the reductions ... who survive the cuts leading to slow downs in services. Ahead of the layoffs, Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine official at the Food and Drug ...