The layoffs followed a March announcement by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called for a major department overhaul.

At a regional HHS office in Rockville, MD, workers at the CDC, NIH, and FDA were affected by layoffs. Some employees are reportedly being told their jobs have been relocated to other parts of the ...

Despite rehiring hundreds of FDA, CDC and NIH employees, the Department of Health and Human Services is still a skeleton of ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is laying off certain employees who were notified months ago of the ...

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked ...

Thousands of employees across HHS were terminated Monday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump ...

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized the layoffs of thousands of employees after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings ...

"Given the Supreme Court's ruling, HHS is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its RIF. Accordingly, you are ...

Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public ...

HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it ...

Distrust of science is fueling such misguided proposals as scaling back critical public-health agencies.

While layoffs at other agencies, like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were reversed before Kennedy’s testimony, that hasn ...