RFK Jr. says he plans to reinstate some personnel and programs hit by massive health agency layoffs

Kennedy says he plans to reinstate some personnel and programs severed in massive HHS layoffs | CNN Some personnel and programs affected by sweeping reductions at federal health agencies on Tuesday will be reinstated, including a program at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that monitors lead in kids, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday. Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell CNN

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Sources at the CDC who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be named for fear of reprisals said members of the lead program had not received notices of reinstatement, however. It’s not clear whether the office would be reinstated at the CDC, with the same people, or whether it would be moved to a different office such as the Administration for a Healthy America, a new agency that Kennedy is forming under the HHS umbrella.

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