RFK Jr says 20% of Doge's health agency job cuts were mistakes

[groundloop]

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Source: The Guardian

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.

But Kennedy, the former environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic turned Trump ally, has said that a large slice of the layoffs by Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency” (Doge) are mistaken.

“Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut,” Kennedy told reporters on Thursday. “We’re reinstating them. And that was always the plan. Part of the Doge, we talked about this from the beginning, is we’re going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we’ll make mistakes.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/rfk-jr-doge-cuts

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What a bunch of fucking idiots. And what's REALLY maddening is that they play with peoples livelihoods like they're buying and selling baseball cards.

[dweller]

1. You are only off

by 80% BobKjr



✌🏻

[elleng]

2. No sh*t, 'sherlock,' ONLY 20%%%???

[cyclonefence]

3. Bunch of fucking idiots is right

and it's not just the life-ruining loss of jobs. These were the folks who among other things formulated our flu shots for the next season. I wonder if my flu shot next fall will be 1. effective and 2. paid for by Medicare. Assuming there is still Medicare.

[sakabatou]

4. It's probably much more than 20%

[twodogsbarking]

5. Idiots wouldn't know how to make a sandwich.

[maxsolomon]

6. They're cutting to cut, without forethought. Cut anything vulnerable.

Just like what Musk did to Twitter. Cut it back too far and force the remaining staff to shoulder the load, or not.

[Martin68]

7. So what else is new? RFK admits they are total morons because they "planned" to fire 80% and then hire back

20%.

[ToxMarz]

8. Part of the reason Government is so "inefficient"

is because it used to be untenable for the Governement to make mistake. They dotteed their i's and crossed their t's. If they didn't, people screamed and yelled louder than if they were inefficient. No one patted themselves on the back that they INTEND to make mistakes. That its a feature not a bug. That it means everything is working as planned. Up is down!

[Grokenstein]

9. Move fast, break things, cause death, spread havoc, destroy lives, salt the earth...shrug shoulders.

Now we know for certain the worms ate rfkj's brains, because he admitted a mistake. agent krasnov will not be pleased.

[wolfie001]

11. Big phony environmentalist

While entering numbers in his female scorebook. Pig.

[wolfie001]

10. He hit that number on a dart board

Worm-addled buffoon.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Imagine ** a doctor or nurse ** making 20% mistakes. . . . nt

[GP6971]

13. Locking. Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143433241