Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained Thursday how he plans to reform the department with a focus on treating chronic diseases and making America healthy again.
Kennedy said with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the workforce at all HHS agencies will be reduced by more than 20 percent or 10,000 workers to make them more efficient.
“We’re going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions,” Kennedy said in a six-minute video posted on social media. “We’re going to do more with less.”
“A few isolated divisions are neglecting public health altogether and seem only accountable to the industries that they’re supposed to be regulating,” Kennedy said of the plan. “In one case defiant bureaucrats impeded the secretary’s office from accessing the closely guarded databases that might reveal the dangers of certain drugs and medical interventions.”
Kennedy expanded on this shocking disclosure during an interview with News Nation’s Chris Cuomo, Thursday.
To demonstrate how dysfunctional the department was when he took charge, he revealed that it’s organizational (Org) chart was incomprehensible.”
“There was no chain of command,” he explained, adding that “territorial” and “self-serving” employees were operating in “all these different silos and fifedoms.”
According to Kennedy, within these silos, officials were “selling patient information to each other.” He told Cuomo that when he tried to obtain Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) depersonalized patient data—which belongs to HHS—”the sub-agency said we have to buy it from them!”
“It doesn’t make any sense. There were sub agencies that wouldn’t give us patient data,” he complained.
Kennedy told Cuomo that HHS has 100 communications departments, 40 procurement departments and “dozens” of IT and human resources units.
“None of them talk to each other,” Kennedy said. “And what we’re trying to do now is to streamline the agency, to eliminate the redundancies and to focus the mission so that everybody at HHS is going to wake up every morning and say, ‘What am I going to do today to make America healthy again?’”
To alleviate fears being drummed up by Democrats and their allies in legacy media, he stressed that they are not going to cut services.
“We’re not going to cut Medicaid. We’re not going to cut Medicare,” he stated firmly. “We’re going to provide services, but more efficiently.”
Kennedy also announced that a new sub-agency at the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be focused entirely on treating vaccine injuries.
“We’re incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in vaccine injuries,” Kennedy told Cuomo, adding that it would also be studying Lyme disease, which some believe escaped from a bio-warfare lab decades ago.
“These are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people,” he added.
The HHS Secretary went on to unveil three new HHS projects aimed at making America Healthy Again: “Operation Stork Speed,” eliminating toxic food dyes, and cleaning up the SNAP program.
“We launched Operation Stork Speed to improve our capacity to have good, nutritious baby formula for the American public that doesn’t have heavy metals or other poisons in it,” Kennedy said.
The Department has already moved on the issue of food dyes, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February ordering food and drug manufacturers to remove Red dye no. 3 from their products.
“We’ve met with the major food processors and told them we want chemical dyes out of all of our foods,” he said.
Kennedy also noted that a large portion of government food aid has been going toward soda pop, arguing that the sugary drinks are fueling a health crisis.
“Ten percent of SNAP is now spent on soda drinks, which are giving diabetes to children… 38 percent of American teens are now prediabetic or diabetic,” he stated. “We are reforming the SNAP program so that we’re not poisoning kids.”
“We’re reforming every part of the agency to make sure that our food supply is good and that we have the healthiest kids in the world, which we had when I was a kid,” he declared.
Kennedy told Cuomo he was surprised by the “very strong and enthusiastic” reaction he received from HHS employees when he first arrived, and credited it to their desire to “participate in making our country health again.”
“I think, in the long run, we’re going to have much greater morale in a demoralized agency,” he said.
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