JUST IN: Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s leadership, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to undergo a seismic shift. He is eliminating what is being called an “Alphabet Soup of Departments” while slashing 10,000 jobs.
This marks a quarter reduction in the agency’s workforce since President Trump returned to office.
This sweeping restructuring will save taxpayers $1.8 billion annually while targeting the deep-state health establishment that failed Americans during the pandemic.
Kennedy’s bold move aligns perfectly with Trump’s promise to drain the swamp. The cuts will affect the alphabet soup departments such as the FDA, CDC, NIH, and other divisions plagued by inefficiency and corporate influence.
“We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions. This overhaul will improve the health of the entire nation — to Make America Healthy Again,” RFK stated.
Since Trump’s inauguration, approximately 10,000 employees have already left the agency, and this additional reduction will shrink the workforce from 82,000 to about 62,000.
“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy declared.
The restructuring will consolidate 28 divisions into just 15 new ones, eliminating redundancy while preserving essential functions.
Five of the agency’s ten regional offices will close, with responsibilities transferred to the remaining locations.
The streamlined agency will operate more efficiently despite overseeing a $1.7 trillion budget that includes vaccines, medicines, public health infrastructure, and government healthcare programs.
Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform focuses on addressing the root causes of America’s chronic disease epidemic through clean food, water, and the elimination of environmental toxins rather than pharmaceutical dependency.
The creation of the Administration for a Healthy America will combine offices addressing addiction, mental health, and occupational safety under one coordinated leadership structure.
Moreover, specific cuts include 3,500 positions at the FDA, which has been criticized for its cozy relationship with pharmaceutical companies; 2,400 from the CDC, which lost public trust during the pandemic; 1,200 from the NIH; and 300 from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“This Department will do more – a lot more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer,” Kennedy promised, addressing concerns about the timing of cuts amid recent disease outbreaks.
The restructuring will actually improve pandemic preparedness by placing the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response under CDC control.
Kennedy has been vocal about ending what he calls “corporate corruption” at federal health agencies.
He has promised to review childhood vaccination schedules and regulatory practices that have favored pharmaceutical profits over public health.
The restructuring centralizes common administrative functions like human resources and IT services that were previously duplicated across multiple divisions.
This common-sense approach mirrors successful private sector efficiency models that eliminate wasteful redundancy while maintaining essential operations.
Trump administration officials confirmed that these cuts are just one part of a broader effort to reduce the federal government’s size and scope.
This fulfills a key campaign promise to return power to the states and the American people while cutting wasteful spending.
