HHS Mergers, Downsizing Questioned

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Employees say a plan to reorganize HHS will have health and safety consequences

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The Trump administration announced a 20,000 -employee reduction in force at the end of March .

But some HHS workers are skeptical that the restructuring will achieve Secretary Kennedy Jr. ’s stated goals.

Some employees who have been let go have discovered that their entire office has been disbanded.

“The hardest part has been the destruction of the system, the dismantling of my life's work,” said one employee.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health is a leading nationwide annual survey of about 70,000 people.

The employees who run the survey received termination notices as they were preparing to write reports on the 2024 data and rolling out the 2025 survey.

“All of the expertise and technical skill to work with these data systems was all cut that morning ,” said Jennifer Hoenig .

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