Kennedy says he plans to reinstate some personnel, programs cut in HHS layoffs
Some personnel and programs affected by sweeping reductions at federal health agencies Tuesday will be reinstated, including a program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that monitors lead in kids, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday.
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CNN reported Wednesday that experts in the CDC맥스카지노s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch who had been helping the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, address a lead contamination problem in schools were among this week맥스카지노s layoffs, leaving the city in the lurch.
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Kennedy said that most of the cuts to federal health agencies involved administrative positions that were redundant and that the cuts were meant to streamline the agencies to make them work more efficiently.
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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. It맥스카지노s 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.
The Milwaukee Department of Health said Thursday that it has also not been notified whether the CDC lead experts would be returning.
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