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“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slashing a total of 20,000 jobs across the Department of Health and Human Services .

The HHS will shrink from 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000 under Kennedy and the Trump administration.

Five of the department's 10 regional offices will close, five of the HHS 's 28 divisions will be cut down to 15 .

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English

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42

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