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No scalpel needed — this calls for major surgery. Due to the years of politicization and corruption at the Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump’s HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is looking to cut thousands of jobs from the bloated and too-often authoritarian agency.
In a video he shared on X, Kennedy discussed “a paradox,” namely, the HHS employees who are “competent, conscientious public servants,” while the agency itself is “inefficient.” As part of his reforms, therefore, Kennedy will readjust HHS priorities, seek objectively scientific solutions instead of pushing the newest pharma industry products, and cut thousands of bureaucrats.
Kennedy explained, “During the Biden administration, the HHS budget increased by 38% and its staffing increased by 17%, but all that money has failed to improve the health of Americans. In fact, the rate of chronic disease and cancer increased dramatically as our department has grown. Our lifespan has dropped so Americans now live six years shorter than Europeans.”
America has “the highest rate of chronic disease” and “ranks last among 40 developed nations in terms of health, but we spend two to three times more per capita than those nations.” That is due to a “sprawling bureaucracy that encompasses literally hundreds of departments, committees, and other offices,” creating committees instead of focusing on results. HHS is unconstitutional, but if it is not going to be shut down, at the very least, it should stop wasting taxpayer money, which is a goal of Kennedy’s.
Secretary Kennedy has officially announced the cut of 20,000 workers! https://t.co/QaetPEEauh pic.twitter.com/UP7SdneZvu— American Values ???? (@AVPac_US) March 27, 2025
In fact, Kennedy accused HHS and subsidiaries of “tremendous waste and duplication and worst of all, a loss of any unified sense of mission, resulting in pandemonium has injured Americans’ health and damaged department morale.
