TODAY Massive Cuts at Health Department
YOU’LL FEEL A LITTLE PINCH: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he’s shedding an additional 10,000 employees from Health and Human Services in addition to the 10,000 who have already retired and accepted buyouts at the urging of the Trump administration.
YESTERDAY Nothing to See Here
THE WORST WING: Following denials by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that he shared secret military information about attacks in Yemen on an unsecured chat line, The Atlantic published the text chain that was accidentally shared with their editor.
That will reduce HHS employment from 82,000 to 62,000. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are expected to lose roughly 20 percent of their people.
“We’re going to do more with less,” Kennedy said, uttering the standard cliché of budget cutters and admitting that it would be “a painful period for HHS.”
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It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
