As part of the Trump administration’s effort to shrink the size of the federal government, the department is also looking to shed approximately 10,000 additional employees.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has maintained that the cuts are a necessary part of his plan to “make America healthy again,” but critics say the nation’s health will suffer as a result.
“This is not the way we make America healthy again,” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences former Director Linda Birnbaum told The Hill. “This is how we make America sick again.”