HHS brings back hundreds of staff following force reduction in latest rehiring move

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rehiring much than 450 antecedently fired employees belonging to aggregate divisions wrong the agency's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to an HHS authoritative acquainted with the matter.

The rehired workers travel from 4 antithetic operational divisions wrong the CDC. These divisions see the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention (NCHHSTP), the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), the Immediate Office of the Director (IOD) and the CDC's Global Health Center (GHC). 

The determination to bring these employees backmost follows the Trump administration's sweeping efforts to reorganize HHS and its sub-agencies during its archetypal fewer months, which reports said included arsenic galore arsenic 10,000 layoffs astatine assorted wellness agencies. It besides follows aggregate actions by the Trump medication pursuing those layoffs to rehire immoderate of the HHS staffers who were initially fto go, specified arsenic those wrong the CDC's World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Institutes of Health.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gathering is shown August 16, 2006 successful Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Andrew Harnik)

"Personnel that should not person been cut, were cut," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CBS News successful April. "We're reinstating them. And that was ever the plan. Part of the — astatine DOGE, we talked astir this from the beginning, is we're going to bash 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to person to beryllium reinstated, due to the fact that we'll marque mistakes."

NCHHSTP volition spot the top fig of its workers rehired retired of the 4 divisions, with 214 returning. This HHS part consists of respective smaller groups, including CDC's Division of HIV Prevention, which media reports said was chopped successful fractional by the Trump administration. 

NCEH volition spot the adjacent top fig of returned employees, with 158 coming back. Similar to NCHHSTP, NCEH consists of aggregate groups, including 1 titled the "Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice," which the Trump medication initially eliminated altogether arsenic portion of its reforms.

A motion stands astatine an entranceway to the main field of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) successful Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 14, 2025.  (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

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IOD volition spot the 3rd astir returning with 71 and CDC's Global Health Center volition spot the slightest employees instrumentality retired of the 4 divisions with 24 rehired workers.

HHS is conscionable 1 of respective agencies that person rehired employees pursuing reductions successful unit spurred by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Internal Revenue Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the State Department, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development person each taken actions to rehire employees that were initially fired arsenic a effect of the simplification successful force, per the Washington Post. 

Demonstrators rally successful enactment of national workers extracurricular of the Department of Health and Human Services, Friday, Feb. 14, successful Washington.  (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, the nation’s captious nationalist wellness functions stay intact and effective. The Trump Administration is committed to protecting indispensable services—whether it’s supporting ember miners and firefighters done NIOSH, safeguarding nationalist wellness done pb prevention, oregon researching and tracking the astir prevalent communicable diseases," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said. 

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"HHS is streamlining operations without compromising mission-critical work. Enhancing the wellness and well-being of each Americans remains our apical priority."