Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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HHS has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 IT departments and dozens of procurement offices and nine HR departments. In many cases, they don't even talk to each other.
HHS has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 IT departments and dozens of procurement offices and nine HR departments. In many cases, they don't even talk to each other.
HHS has more than 100 communications offices and more than 40 IT departments and dozens of procurement offices and nine HR departments. In many cases, they don't even talk to each other.
When I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don't even come to work. As part of President Trump's Doge Workforce Reduction Initiative, we're going to streamline HHS and make our agency more efficient and more effective.
When I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don't even come to work. As part of President Trump's Doge Workforce Reduction Initiative, we're going to streamline HHS and make our agency more efficient and more effective.
We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHAH.
We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHAH.
Putting the money and the personnel in there is not alone going to solve the problem. And what I found when I came to HHS was really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments.
Putting the money and the personnel in there is not alone going to solve the problem. And what I found when I came to HHS was really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments.
We're going to streamline our agency and eliminate the redundancies and invite everyone to align behind a simple, bold mission. We're going to save taxpayers nearly $2 billion a year, and we're going to return HHS to its original commitment to public health and gold standard science.
We're going to streamline our agency and eliminate the redundancies and invite everyone to align behind a simple, bold mission. We're going to save taxpayers nearly $2 billion a year, and we're going to return HHS to its original commitment to public health and gold standard science.
I want everyone who works here to be proud of this agency, to be proud of their work, to feel a renewed inspiration and their own sense of responsibility for our success in restoring America to good health.
I want everyone who works here to be proud of this agency, to be proud of their work, to feel a renewed inspiration and their own sense of responsibility for our success in restoring America to good health.
Hmm. They need to have more transparency in our government, and he's keeping his promise to them.
Hmm. They need to have more transparency in our government, and he's keeping his promise to them.
And throughout RFK's life... The day that my uncle was killed, the first phone call that my father made after J. Edgar Hoover told him that his brother had been shot was to the CIA desk officer. And my father said to him, did your people do this?
And throughout RFK's life... The day that my uncle was killed, the first phone call that my father made after J. Edgar Hoover told him that his brother had been shot was to the CIA desk officer. And my father said to him, did your people do this?
It was my father's first instinct that the agency had killed his brother.
It was my father's first instinct that the agency had killed his brother.
There's millions of pages of documents. There's a 60-year cover-up.