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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Department of Health and Human Services has become the latest large federal government agency to feel the jobs cutting acts as part of the Trump administration's

government downsizing. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing today a combination of early

buyouts and layoffs will result in the elimination of 20,000 jobs. And Pierre Salina Simmons-Duffin as

Moore. When President Trump came into office, there were 82,000

employees across all of HHS. Secretary Kennedy says many employees have already left or been

fired, and with all of that, plus the jobs they're going to eliminate with this new restructuring

plan, they would end up with 62,000 employees. That is a 25% reduction. The Food and Drug Administration and the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be among the hardest hit. Kennedy says the agency

will do more with less. President Trump's plans to impose 25% tariffs on all imported cars

could weigh less heavily on EV maker Tesla than many other manufacturers,

and Bure Scott Newman, as more. The new tariffs are set to kick in starting in April. That's bad news

for foreign carmakers, but for Tesla with assembly plants in Texas and California, the impact may not

be as great as for others. Even so, foreign-made auto parts are also on the

tariff list, and about 30 to 40 percent of Tesla's use components made abroad. That's still less

than for many of the company's competitors in the electric vehicle market. Tesla has seen its sales

slump, and its cars in showrooms vandalized in recent months, amid consumer anger

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