Federal employees were in ruins on Tuesday morning, because thousands received their notification of dismissal in health and human services.
Messages started about the inboxes of the government and the scene outside the Washington, the DC headquarters was gloomy with employees who cuddled and tears while they stood in line to pack their desks.
HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Last week revealed his plans to reduce the workforce of his department by 20,000 – half of those who came from the approximately 10,000 who took early retirements and voluntary buyouts.
In the meantime, the other 10,000 are now being informed that they have lost their jobs.
In a movement inspired by President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), HHS staff is reduced by almost a quarter, which brings it from 82,000 to a total of 62,000.
The majority of lottery tickets will be felt at the Food and Drug Administration with 3,500 at that division that is fired. The FDA is responsible for inspecting, setting and regulating safety standards for food, medicines and medical devices in the US
And the second largest number of cuts are made in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where 2,400 are confronted with shooting.
On Tuesday morning at the Ministry of Health and Human Services with staff employees who hug and throw tears after a notification of dismissal
An now formator HHHS employee had seized her badge and was denied access to the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on Tuesday 1 April 2025
Dismissal and dismissal messages started on Tuesday to go to HHS employees in the midst of the initiative of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In the meantime, another 1,200 jobs are reduced at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 300 of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to a breakdown of the cuts that were published on Thursday.
HHS has sworn that nobody receives medicine or medicoid benefits will be influenced by the job reductions.
Federal employees of the bloated agency began to receive their dismissal reports on their inbox on Tuesday, only one day after President Trump was moved from their collective negotiating rights.
RFK Jr. wants to consolidate the divisions of his department that supervise billions in addiction services and community centers in his newly established administration for a healthy America.
About 10,000 employees already took early retirement and voluntary divorce offers at HHS. Another 10,000 are fired in the final round of cuts inspired by Doge.
In a six-minute video placed on X last week, Kennedy says that he will reduce the number of HHS divisions to 15 of the current 28 and will reduce the number of regional offices from 10 to five.
“We're going to do more with less,” he promised. “No American will be left behind.”
“We are going to consolidate all these departments and make them responsible for you, the American taxpayer and the American patient.”
An HHS press release in the work reductions claims that the measure saves the department $ 1.8 billion annually.
The staff was outside the HHS headquarters in Washington, DC on April 1, 2025 when they gathered their possessions in the massive federal office building
Activists gathered on 19 February outside the HHS building in Washington, DC in protest from Doge Funding Freezes on research. Most cuts on the staff are aimed at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Kennedy complained that although the HHS budget and workforce has been blown up in recent years, so the rates of cancer and other chronic diseases have. He also noted that the life of Americans fell, despite a greater focus on the health agency.
He is planning to create a new division within HHS called the administration for a healthy America. It will serve important functions and focus on 'safe, healthy food, clean water and the elimination of environmental oxins', according to the HHS delivery on the overhaul.
RFK Jr. is very controversial, even with some Republican circles because of its anti-vaccination position. But earlier this year he was confirmed to lead the department that was instructed to treat Americans at federal level, healthcare, medicines and vaccine regulations and other important health -related recommendations.
He promised to 'make America healthy again' (Maha) by eliminating unnecessary and potentially hazardous substances in food and giving Americans more freedom to make their own health-related decisions-such as getting vaccines or the search for alternative medicines in their health care network.
A lifelong Democrat, Kennedy changed from party relationships to Independent in 2023 and ran in the 2024 presidential elections before supporting Trump's offer and helped the Maha movement in Leiden.
