DOGE is Slashing HHS Personnel and Health Projects. States Are Already Feeling the Strain.

State and local officials told NOTUS they’re losing critical funds.

Department of Health and Human Services

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The Trump administration is making sweeping cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues will streamline the federal health infrastructure. But cutting so many programs and personnel at once could end up making America less healthy, lawmakers and state health agencies warn.

“Robert Kennedy is a hazard to our health,” Sen. Raphael Warnock told NOTUS.

As Kennedy embarks on a significant and sprawling reorganization of the country’s federal public health infrastructure, state and local officials told NOTUS they’re already worried about the consequences of the cuts he’s already made.

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