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HHS finalizes ‘portion’ of employee layoffs following Supreme Court ruling HHS is the third agency to advance its workforce cuts following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling. Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED July 14, 2025 7:30 pm 2 min read Many employees who received layoff notices from the Department of Health and Human Services in April are now officially separated from the agency, according …

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent much of his confirmation process before becoming the nation’s health secretary reassuring lawmakers that he would not undermine public confidence in vaccines and seeking to distance himself from the anti-vaccine group he founded, Children’s Health Defense. As health secretary, he has installed former prominent members of that group and other vaccine skeptics in …