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News Articles: HHS

Alexis Ratcliff, 19, (right) moved into her own apartment this week after living in a North Carolina hospital since she was 13. She was a baby when a car accident left her with significant disabilities.

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  • Health Care

The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s  Make America Healthy Again agenda proposes to get rid of toxins in the environment and food supply. But the Trump administration is cutting back resources and regulations needed to achieve that.

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  • Health

Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals

Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda, which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cut funds, grants and regulations that support that goal.

June 18, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
The Department of Health and Human Services notified 400 laid off CDC workers on Wednesday that their reduction in force had been "revoked."

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  • Investigations

More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 20 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

'Which is it?' RFK Jr. waffles on cuts to lead poisoning prevention efforts

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions from senators about a lead poisoning crisis in public schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been carrying out President  Trump's vision to shrink government. On Monday, they announced an executive order aimed at drug prices.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. got rid of an 'alphabet soup' of health agencies. Now, Congress gets a say

On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to Capitol Hill to promote and defend his massive overhaul of HHS, and President Trump's plans to change it even more.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called gender-affirming care for children "barbaric" at a press conference on Thursday. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt looks on.

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  • Health

Health care for transgender children questioned in 400-page Trump administration report

President Trump called for the report in an executive order, titled "Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation."

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative.

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  • Health

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs.

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  • Health

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
The CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis was shuttered amid federal layoffs in April.

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  • Investigations

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
A two-day meeting of vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went smoothly.

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  • Health

First meeting of CDC vaccine advisers under RFK Jr. is mostly 'business as usual'

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on vaccine policy for the first time since the change in administrations.

April 16, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang
One-year-old River Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, while he receives an MMR vaccine from Raynard Covarrubio, at a vaccine clinic held by the Lubbock Public Health Department on March 1 in Lubbock, Texas. A measles outbreak in West Texas has led to more than 500 cases, 57 hospitalizations and the deaths of two school-age children.

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  • Health

As measles spreads, federal budget cuts force closure of vaccine clinics

Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination outreach across the country, including in Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, and Washington state.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Bram Sable-Smith,
  • Arielle Zionts,
  • and 1 more
A worker wheels out the belongings of a fellow employee who was dismissed, outside of the Mary E. Switzer Federal Office Building, which houses HHS offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

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  • Health

'Your RIF notice is not cancelled.' Inside a chaotic week of massive layoffs at HHS

Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as thousands of "reduction in force" notices went out beginning April 1. To many it's the opposite of "government efficiency."

April 05, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein,
  • Yuki Noguchi,
  • and 4 more
The Department of Health and Human Services is facing spending as well as staffing cuts.

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  • Health

On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts

Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts which started this week.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein,
  • Sydney Lupkin,
  • and 2 more
Among the thousands of layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week were many staff who handled public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

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  • Health

After promising transparency, RFK guts public records teams at HHS

Despite promises for "radical transparency," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid off many staff on teams that fulfill public records requests at health agencies.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Dr. Dave Weldon, who served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009, is no longer a candidate to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His nomination was withdrawn shortly before a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

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  • Health

White House withdraws controversial pick to run the CDC

Dr. Dave Weldon, Trump's pick for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was withdrawn from consideration shortly before a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang
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