Steam rises from underground as pedestrians and cars move along the Sixth Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City on March 26, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Washington: The US health department will reduce its workforce by around 10,000 full-time employees as part of a broader cost-cutting overhaul of the federal government, according to an official statement released Thursday.
Including early retirements and so-called "deferred resignations," the total downsizing will shrink the department from 82,000 to 62,000 employees.
"We aren't just reducing bureaucratic sprawl," said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. "We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic."
