The U.S. Department of Health and Senior Services plans to make massive job cuts, and Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator is endorsing the move.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is planning to cut 10,000 jobs from the federal agency he leads, along with seeking to get 10,000 more to accept buyout offers and early retirement. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, said he doesn’t think the job cuts will harm efforts to combat disease.
“They are eliminating sprawl in order to refocus on the core mission of the Department of Health and Human Services,” Hawley told Missourinet. “They’re going to do more with less, and that’s exactly the right attitude. The federal government is massive. It is bloated. Federal workers are overpaid, and for four years they haven’t even been showing up to work.”
Meanwhile, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is blasting the move, calling it an “attack on public health” that will hurt people across the country “every single day.” Their full statement can be found here.
Notices are expected to begin going out to HHS employees on Friday.
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