Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces 10,000 job cuts and a major restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he will cut 10,000 jobs from the Health and Human Services Department

that he leads. It's a move that will reshape the nation's

health agencies and close regional offices. These worker cuts, in addition to the roughly 10,000

voluntary departures since President Trump took office, mean that the department will shed about

one quarter of its workforce. For more, health reporter Liz Estley White joins me now from Washington.

Liz, who will be affected by these cuts?

It'll be workers from across the Department of Health and Human Services,

including thousands from the Food and Drug Administration

and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And we're not quite sure how this will play out. Kennedy has said this

will not affect essential health services, but definitely people involved in the work there are

worried. Democrats and the union are coming out and saying this will definitely affect health

services just because it will slow down the people

who do drug approvals and who respond to outbreaks because they'll have less tech support

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