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Health agency job cuts, Musk’s million-dollar awards, MLB Opening Day & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of people are set to lose their jobs in a Department of Health and Human Services overhaul. World leaders have met in Paris to discuss the war in Ukraine. Elon Musk is offering cash giveaways to sign a petition against “activist judges.” An Oscar-winning director is determined to stay in the occupied West Bank, despite being attacked. Plus, it’s a huge day for Major League Baseball fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi there, from CNN. I'm Aaron Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27th.

0:41.3

Another federal agency is being restructured today. This time, it's the Department of Health and Human Services.

0:44.3

They announced 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies will lose their jobs.

0:50.3

CNN's Meg Terrell has more.

0:52.3

They're announcing a pretty big restructuring here, what they're calling a transformation

0:56.0

to make America healthy again.

0:57.0

Of course, that's the slogan of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1:01.0

They say that this restructuring will save taxpayers $1.8 billion a year.

1:07.0

It's going to include the reduction of the workforce of about 10,000 jobs, and that's on top

1:11.9

of 10,000 folks who already left through either early retirement or voluntary, sort of

1:16.7

taking that fork in the road option, they say, that Elon Musk had talked about.

1:21.9

So that's going to bring their full-time employees down to about 62,000.

1:25.5

That's about a quarter of the entire workforce across HHS.

1:29.3

European leaders and their allies met in Paris today to discuss the war in Ukraine and long-term

1:35.3

stability in the region. Ahead of the summit, sources said there would be four major topics on the agenda.

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