and close agencies in a major restructuring

By America-Today  Apri 3，2025

In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers

 and shut down entire agencies,including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction

services and community health centers across the country.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as

an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring

Thursday. He faulted the department’s 82,000 workers for a decline in Americans’ health.

“I want to promise you now that we’re going to do more with less,” Kennedy said

in the video, posted to social media.

The restructuring plan caps weeks of tumult at the nation’s top health

department, which has been embroiled in rumors of mass firings, the revocation

of $11 billion in public health funding for cities and counties, a tepid response to

a measles outbreak, and controversial remarks about vaccines from its new leader.