RFK Jr says 20% of Doge's health agency job cuts were mistakes [View all]
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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
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.
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