We start the day's other headlines with major restructuring at the Department of Health and Human Services, slashing its workforce by almost 25%.

The agency says it will lay off 10,000 employees on top of another 10,000 leaving voluntarily through buyouts or early retirement.

The vast majority of the job cuts will come from the FDA, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health.

The plan will also shut down entire agencies, including one that oversees the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a, quote, painful period lies ahead, but he called the reduction in bureaucracy necessary.

We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet of soup of departments and agencies while preserving

their core functions. We're going to consolidate all of these departments and make them accountable

to you, the American taxpayer and the American patient. Kennedy said some folded agencies would be merged into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America.

HHS claims the changes would save taxpayers $1.8 billion a year.

The White House has withdrawn New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's nomination to be ambassador

to the United Nations, citing concerns about the slim margins Republicans have on Capitol Hill.

Stefanik was seen as one of President Trump's least controversial picks, and her nomination even

advanced out of committee before it stalled for months. It's a turnaround for the congresswoman

who was expecting to be confirmed. She'd even launched a recent farewell tour in her district.

Stefanik is now the fourth Trump administration nominee to have his or her name pulled.

Attorney General Pam Bondi this morning signaled there is unlikely to be a criminal investigation

into the sharing of military operational details by top Trump officials on a commercial messaging act.

Bondi said the information shared over signal about when the operation would start and what weaponry would be used was not classified.

First, it was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released.

And what we should be talking about is it was a very successful mission.

Our world is now safer because of that mission.

We're not going to comment any further on that.

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