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These cuts will allow HHS to consolidate not only authority but messaging, as many of the departments affected involve communications departments.
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Federal agencies have accelerated their efforts to cut thousands of jobs, offering buyouts and eliminating entire offices as the Trump administration’s deadline to downsize approaches.
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There is no “deep state” in a Civil Service designed to be nonpartisan.
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US House Democrats open investigation into Kennedy bird flu response
Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handling of the federal response to bird flu, according to a letter sent to Kennedy and released by the committee.
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