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The Federal Department of Health and Human Services will soon be dramatically restructured and

downsized by 20,000 full-time jobs. As NPR, Selena Simmons-Duffin explains, health

secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the plan

will streamline the department and align it with his goal of reducing chronic disease. The restructuring

plan would reduce the Department of Health and Human Services from a staff of 82,000 people

down to 62,000. The federal health agencies, including NIH, CDC, and more, will also be reduced from 28 centers and divisions to 15.

In a social media video, Secretary Kennedy described HHS as a dysfunctional, sprawling bureaucracy.

When I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don't even come to work.

HHS has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 IT departments and dozens of

procurement offices and nine HR departments.

He said the restructuring would save taxpayers' money and improve the health of the American

population.

Salina Simmons-Duffin and PR News, Washington.

The federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a

text message chat in which senior national security officials discuss sensitive details

of a military strike against Houthi targets in Yemen.

U.S. District Judge James Bosberg during a hearing today saying he'll issue a temporary

restraining order barring administration officials from destroying messages sent over the app. Someone in the

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