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Fierce Healthcare, Regulatory, Noah Tong, Dave Muoio, and Emma Beavins, April 4, 2025
As part of an effort by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Kennedy, the health divisions cut their workforce by 10,000 people this week. The cuts only further the agency's downsizing efforts, as seen by previous early retirement, buyout and probationary firings at HHS and across the federal government.
"Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut," Kennedy told CBS News during a stop in Virginia. "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."