RFK Jr. orders 10,000 HHS job cuts in major health agency shakeup

Massive changes are coming to HHS, CMS, CDC, and NIH

All federal government health programs will be overcome by reducing the workforce with DOGE efforts to reduce inefficiency and alleged fraud.  Most of these political appointees know little about healthcare.

This represents a 25% reduction in the workforce.

The agency announced the restructuring plans on Thursday as part of broader Trump administration efforts to reduce the federal workforce and cut costs. HHS claimed that laying off 10,000 federal workers across its divisions would save $1.8 billion and “serve multiple goals without impacting critical services.”

Combined with other Trump administration efforts, including early retirement and buyout offers, roughly 20,000 people will leave the health department, HHS said. The department will go from 82,000 workers to 62,000, a reduction of almost 25%.

This comes at a time when artificial intelligence is incorporated into the daily operations of these federal agencies.

Not all this disruptive change is bad.  With change comes enormous opportunities to those are forward thinkers.  New entrepreneurs will benefit from the possibility of profiting with the change.  The enemy of this change are those embedded in the old institutional paradigm. Change rarely comes from within.  Perhaps DOGE gives us the new opportunity for improvement.

RFK Jr. orders 10,000 HHS job cuts in major health agency shakeup