The HHS layoffs.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, April 1, the Trump administration began large-scale layoffs at agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he expected to cut 10,000 jobs in addition to the thousands of workers who have already resigned or been placed on leave. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been among the most impacted by the layoffs, with entire offices and divisions eliminated.
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| 1:24.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, |
| 1:27.8 | the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's |
| 1:32.2 | episode, we're going to be talking about cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to be breaking down exactly what we know about those cuts and then share some |
| 1:43.8 | arguments from the left and the right cuts and then share some arguments |
| 1:44.1 | from the left and the right and then of course |
| 1:45.7 | my take. I'm not going to |
| 1:47.9 | waste any time with any plugs |
| 1:49.8 | or anything today. I'm going to hand it right over to |
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