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RFK Jr. is struggling to keep his promise to protect Native Americans from health cuts

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Navajo leaders say cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans .

Tribal health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.

Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy .

Kennedy has said his focus on Native American health stems from personal and family experience.

Some tribal leaders say the recent cuts, and the way the administration made them, violate treaties.

"We have not been consulted with meaningfully on any of these actions," one advocate says.

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